Cuban Ivory-bill hunt

According to this article, an Ivory-bill search has begun in Cuba.

A couple of snippets (the bold font is mine):

"I believe the bird is here," said Arturo Kirkconnell, co-author of the Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba and one of the island's top researchers. "We have a chance now to go to areas never visited before. The habitat is ideal, and there has been no evidence that the woodpecker is not there."
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Eduardo Inigo-Elias, an ornithologist at Cornell University, which is heading the Arkansas search, said Cuba has less acreage suitable for the woodpecker than does the United States. Still, said Inigo-Elias, "Cuba does have 600 protected areas, and we are happy they are looking for it.

In a related note, here is what Martjan Lammertink wrote in 1995. An excerpt (the bold font is mine):

In 1986 the re-discovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus principalis, in eastern Cuba attracted world-wide attention. In March that year Cuban biologists found the species in a hilly pine forest called Ojito de Agua. At the same site two C. principalis were seen by an international team in April 1986. Ojito de Agua immediately became a protected area. The willingness of the Cuban authorities to co-operate and the expectation that more birds could be found in other areas raised the hope that C. principalis could be saved. However, after two extensive expeditions in 1991 and 1993, it has become clear that the birds found in 1986 were in dire circumstances and no other suitable areas for C. principalis could be found. The conclusion must be that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, C. principalis, had become extinct by 1990.