Steven Earl Latta, age 69, passed away at Ocala Regional Medical Center, on January 13, 2012. Born in Elgin, Illinois, he served in the U.S. Air Force and was an Engine Technician. He and his wife ...

Once thought to be extinct, the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker has been documented by researchers with Pittsburgh ties. Steven Latta, director of conservation and field research at the National ...

A National Aviary researcher was wading in the waters of hardwood bottomlands in Louisiana. Then, whoosh: A large black bird with bright distinctive white markings — which he believed to be the ...

The extinction status of the ivory-billed woodpecker is still up for debate, as ornithologists are mixed on the bird’s existence. A new study claims to have documented the presence of birds with ...

If you ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct. It’s been more than half a century since anyone has seen the iconic animal, which was last officially spotted in ...