CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY

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The 'Cornell Lab of Ornithology' is a laboratory dedicated to research in the field of ornithology at Cornell University. The lab is focused on the understanding and conservation of birds, but also does research, more generally, on biological diversity; specific programs include bird population studies, a bioacoustics research program an evolutionary biology program and the Macaulay Library, the largest collection of animal sounds in the world, with more than 160,000 recordings and a growing archive of natural history video--many now included in the Birds of North America online resource. It also includes programs that promote citizen science, such as the BirdSource Project. The lab is located in the Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca, New York and includes trails that are open 365 days a year.
The lab's main library, the Adelson Library, part of the Cornell University Library system, contains historical and contemporary ornithological materials, including an extensive collection of monographs and journals.
In the spring of 2005, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, thought to have been extinct for decades, had been rediscovered in Arkansas. They presented a video as evidence. This was challenged by a team lead by David A. Sibley and by Jerome Jackson of Florida Gulf Coast University. They identified the bird of the video as a Pileated Woodpecker. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology rebuffed these claims in return. The debate is still ongoing about the existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.^[1]

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1. The Great Ivory-billed Woodpecker Debate: Perceptions of the Evidence

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★ Cornell Lab of Ornithology

★ A virtual tour of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

★ All About Birds: Online Bird Guide

★ Ivory-billed woodpecker

★ The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds

★ The Macaulay Library Sound and Video Catalog