BUT HOW MANY CAN FIT ON THE HEAD OF A PIN?:

The bird or not the bird? (RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, 3/17/06, Associated Press)

Was it or was it not an ivory-billed woodpecker?

Experts are still arguing a year later, while bird fanciers flock to the part of Arkansas where the bird in question was said to have been seen and heard.

The issue takes wing again in the Friday's issue of the journal Science, with one set of researchers arguing that the bird videotaped last year probably was a common pileated woodpecker and another group stoutly defending the identification as an ivory-bill.

It is an important distinction, because the ivory-billed woodpecker had been thought extinct.