According to the National Geographic and new evidence, it is now believed that the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker may be living in the panhandle of the state of Florida.

The birds, once believed to be extinct, may actually still be living in Florida, surviving along the Choctawhatchee River. The report was made available from scientists on Tuesday in the scientific journal, "Avian Conservation and Ecology."

A biologist from an Alabama university reported seeing an ivory-bill woodpecker back in May 2005 on a kayaking trip in Florida.

The biologist's report was made shortly after another report from Arkansas, in which a researcher had reported seeing the bird in the state's eastern Big Woods area.

Challenges of the sightings prevailed as the last confirmed sighting of this woodpecker had been made in 1944 in Arkansas, and that discovery was questionable in equivalence to reported sightings of Elvis.

However, experts are now confirming the existence of this rare woodpecker, yet skeptics abound, as amateur bird watchers are excited.