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Episode transcript: https://scintilla.studio/monster-extinction-ivory-billed-woodpecker/

Guides:

Kieran Suckling, Executive Director and Founder of the Center for Biological Diversity

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/

Ben Gilsdorf, amateur ornithologist

https://www.audubon.org/conservation/science/christmas-bird-count

"Extinction Theme" by Alexandre Miller, The Boy King of Idaho