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 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Those who live and work in the region where an ivory-billed woodpecker was reportedly spotted are used to people doubting the bird's discovery — they've heard it before. But despite an article in Friday's issue of the journal Science that suggests the bird does not live in the eastern swamps of Arkansas, locals in the 4,000-resident town of Brinkley don't believe birders will take flight.
"We've been hearing people say they don't believe it's here since the beginning," said Sandra Kemmer, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce in Brinkley, located about halfway between Little Rock and Memphis, Tenn. "I'm actually glad because it keeps it in the eye of the public."
In the journal, one set of researchers argues that a bird videotaped in 2004 by David Luneau of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock was probably a common pileated woodpecker.
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