It is very, very seldom that a news story makes me as utterly delighted as this one did. It was especially wonderful to hear during a week when the fate of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge is so much, and so dismally, in the news.

As you will see when you check out the reports, there is much more to this story than the video. There is LOTS of information on the ivory-billed woodpecker discovery on The Nature Conservancy's website that is well worth reading. Go to The Nature Conservancy to see many links that relate the whole odyssey of the research teams' efforts to locate this bird. Yeah!