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Elusive ivory-billed woodpecker © Larry Chandler/ ivory-bill-woodpecker.com Register for this event! Please register online now or you can register for this event by calling toll-free (866) 622-7787, ext. 4410, by November 1, 2005. The cost of the program is $25 (includes lunch). For more information about the event, please contact Mimi Bittick at (404) 253-7208 or e-mail mbittick@tnc.org. Register online now! Ivory-bill Search Team and Presenters: President Jimmy Carter (in absentia) Honorary Chair Welcome remarks by video Scott Simon Director, The Nature Conservancy in Arkansas Co-led the ivory-billed woodpecker search in Arkansas Gene Sparling Naturalist and entrepreneur First to spot the ivory-bill while paddling on the Cache River in Arkansas Georgia Conservation Experts

The ivory-billed woodpecker once made its home in the
floodplain forests of the Altamaha River
© The Nature Conservancy

Event Details:

• Date: Friday, November 4, 2005.
• Time: 12 noon - 2pm (registration begins at 11:30am).
• Location: Silver Bell Pavilion at the Emory Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta, GA.  [ map | directions ]

Event Overview:

Learn about the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker first-hand from members of the official ivory-bill woodpecker search team!

For more than 60 years, this magnificent bird eluded ornithologists and recreational birders alike. The disappearance and suspected extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker symbolized the increasing loss of the bird's mature bottomland forest habitat in the southern United States.

But a sighting by a lone kayaker in the swamps of eastern Arkansas in 2004, followed by a 14-month search by the Conservancy and conservation partners, led to an annoucement of hope in spring 2005: "The Lord God Bird Lives!"

The rediscovery of the ivory-billed validates more than 20 years of large-scale conservation efforts by the Conservancy and its partners in Arkansas and around the world.

Register online now for this ivory-billed woodpecker event!

For more information:

• The Nature Conservancy in Georgia
  The Nature Conservancy has protected more than 240,000 acres in Georgia, including the old-growth forests of the Altamaha River and the Savannah River, which were once home to the ivory-billed woodpecker.
• Found: The Ivory-billed Woodpecker
  Learn about the timeline of the search for the ivory-bill, The Nature Conservancy’s conservation efforts in the Big Woods of Arkansas, meet the search team, and more!
• Places We Protect: Habitat of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
  Formerly found in parts of Georgia, today these bottomland hardwood forests have shrunk to less than one-fifth of their original 24 million-acre extent.
• Who We Are: Ivory-billed Woodpecker Search Team
  Learn more about the intrepid explorers behind the one of the most exciting search efforts in history.