Has official backpedaling begun?

From an anonymous person:

The latest issue of Audubon appeared in my stack of
mail sometime in the last couple of days, and I was
interested to find an ad from Arkansas.com on p. 5.
What strikes me particularly is the image of the
birder in a canoe 'neath ancient cypress trees--and
the fact that the species sought is, conspicuously,
not 'the' woodpecker but rather Red-headed. Unusually
cautious, it seems to me, for a state that had
promised itself so much out of the 'rediscovery'. I
suspect that the official backpedaling has begun down
there.