An ivory-billed woodpecker specimen is on a display at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. Death's come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 assorted birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct. It's a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a plant or animal, but government scientists say they've exhausted efforts to find these 23. (Haven Daley/Associated …

September 29, 2021