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The U.S. government has declared 23 domestic species of bird, fish and other wildlife extinct, including the Ivory-billed woodpecker, last observed no less than 15 years ago but with not reliably so since the 1940s. This begins a three-months consultancy period before the extinctions become official. — Read the rest