About the Ivory-bill

Ivory-bill ID Tips, Behavior, History

Getting to know the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Identification

Distinguishing between Ivory-billed and Pileated woodpeckers

Habitat

Bird of the Southern Wilderness

Ecology and Behavior

The Life of the Ivory-bill

Historic Encounters

Human perspectives on the ivory-bill, prior to the 1900s

Studying a Vanishing Bird

Pioneering study by Cornell researchers in the 1930s captured the first motion picture images and sounds of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers

The Slide Toward Extinction

Why the Ivory-billed Woodpecker disappeared in the mid-1900s

Ivory-billed Woodpecker Searches, 1948-1971

Cuba and the Big Thicket area of Texas

The Pearl River Expedition, Louisiana, 2002

Paving the way for monitoring ivory-bills using sound

Books About the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

 

Conservation

The rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker has galvanized conservation efforts in the Big Woods