The Partnership

The Big Woods Conservation Partnership was formed during 2004-5 when the search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas was known only to a small group of people. At the time of the announcement in April 2005, the partnership had acquired the website www.ivorybill.org. The information on that website is not updated often, but you can find a list of the partners involved in one way or another in the search and recovery effort.

IBWO links


The original Science journal article on the rediscovery

The Recovery Plan for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (4.7 MB PDF)

US Fish and Wildlife site for Big Woods Birding Opportunities

Cornell's Ivory-bill site

Search reports from previous year IBWO searches (Cornell website)


Some IBWO sales and entertainment links

An Ivory-bill Poem and cartoon by Michael James Godfrey

An Ivory-bill song by Margaret Middleton