So on today's show we play: Extinct or not? It seems to be anybody's guess...

Maybe I am just crazy but I felt like this article went nowhere. Do not get me wrong, I love hearing that a species has been recovered when thought to be extinct. But here is the thing, I did not hear that, in fact I did not hear much of anything. A man on a boat thought he saw the ivory- billed woodpecker. He took pictures and videos but after careful examination and disection, no decision was made. The article just made a full circle to be perfectly frank. I feel like numbers and words were just thrown into the article to make it seem like there evidence was going somewhere when all it really did was add extra fluff and feathers to this bird of a paper. One idea in this article, that really jumped out at me was how scientists and scholars believe this species of bird became extinct. They have come to the conclusion that it was based on habitat degradation but I feel like there has to be more to that story. While reading this article all I could think about was how all these scholars who study birds and extensive species for a living, can not tell if one little bird is an ivory- billed woodpecker or not. As the reader all we recieved are possible hintings to the bird's existence through the bird's physical characteristics. This article just left me with so many un- answered questions.