This really turned out to be a cash cow for Cornell University. Looks like Auburn University wants a little piece of the pie too. Who can blame them? It landed Cornell a shiny brand new orinthology lab.

After spending months in remote northwest Florida swamps searching for the ivory-billed woodpecker, researchers say they have seen and heard the rare bird once believed to be extinct.

But Auburn University ornithologists, who published their findings in Canada’s Avian Conservation and Ecology journal online Tuesday, failed to capture a picture of the large woodpecker, which makes a distinct double rapping sound.

Well, that woodpecker no longer eludes my camera lens. Just send the money to Wyoming.