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A while ago, The New Yorker had a long piece about the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker (do you capitalize the names of birds)?

No one had seen one in over 60 years, yet many people had heard them or thought they knew where some were or had dreams about them or something.

You might say 'who cares'.

That would be you who should.

The ivory-bill is one of those harbingers of the ecologosphere.

If he has been wiped out, you could be next.

If he is just rare, he can be used to stop further depredations of the environment. He would be like one of those hoot owls that caused all the trouble in the northwest.

Now, in the LA Times we see that he has been found. Good for him. Good for us. Go see:
A Bellwether of the Wild, the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Is Back.

He is not capitalized in the story. And it is ivory-dash-billed. He is a big fellow. I am glad that s/he is around today. Even if I would have to go to Arkansas to see it.