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Ivory-billed Woodpecker

ID Info
Ivory-billed Woodpecker by Arthur Allen
Silhouette WoodpeckersWoodpeckers
Ivory-billed WoodpeckerCampephilus principalis
  • ORDER: Piciformes
  • FAMILY: Picidae

Basic Description

The largest of the woodpeckers north of Mexico and the third largest in the world, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was a bird of old-growth forests in the southeastern U.S. and Cuba. Destruction of its forest habitat caused severe population declines in the 1800s, and only very small numbers survived into the twentieth century. It was thought to have gone extinct in the middle of the twentieth century. The bird was rediscovered in the "Big Woods" region of eastern Arkansas in 2004, but has not been relocated since.

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Year-roundBreedingMigrationNonbreeding
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Other Names

  • Picamaderos Picomarfil (Spanish)
  • Pic à bec ivoire (French)
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