word is the Cuba also holds a population of Ivory-Billed ..... and I read a story a year or two ago about a few sightings in Mississippi
Used to. One thing you won't hear on NPR is that the enlightened people's republic of Cuba has been very bad for the environment, with several species having been wiped out in the last 50 years.
We have some really big woodpeckers around my wood at the Lake of the Ozarks. Lots of oak and similar hard woods and we're overrun with borers, so these birds are well fed.
There is a known sub-species of the Ivory-Billed there in Cuba. Finding a real Ivory-Billed in Cuba would be as astounding as the find here in America. Note--Cuba was a former range of the Ivory-Billed.