Ivory-bill ID Tips, Behavior, History
Getting to know the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
The magnificent Ivory-billed Woodpecker has become a symbol of the
bottomland forest wilderness that once extended across the southern
United States. The largest woodpecker north of Mexico and the third
largest in the world, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker inhabits mature
swampy forests, roaming large areas in search of dead and dying trees
infested with beetle larvae, its primary food. Ivory-billed Woodpeckers
were probably never common, but by the 1930s, nearly all of their
habitat had been destroyed. Since then, Ivory-billed Woodpeckers have
been on the verge of extinction. To learn more about the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker, choose from the topics in the list below.
