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“ The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service-funded Ivory-billed Woodpecker searches will continue through the 2008-09 search season ,” says Laurie Fenwood, Ivory-billed Woodpecker Recovery Team Coordinator for the U. S, Fish and Wildlife Service .… If no birds are confirmed, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will not send an organized team into the field next year.

“ We remain committed to our original goal of striving to locate breeding pairs ,” says Cornell Lab of Ornithology director John Fitzpatrick.

“ We will continue to accept and investigate credible reports of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, and to promote protection and restoration of the old growth conditions upon which this magnificent species depended across the entire southeastern United States .”