Ozarks at Large: Still Looking for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker WHITE RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, AR (kuaf) - Almost four years after the once-thought extinct ivory-billed woodpecker was spotted in the swamps of eastern Arkansas in the winter of 2004, scientists are more determined than ever to collect credible evidence of the bird's existence. Jacqueline Froelich files this update. © Copyright 2009, kuaf