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The ivory-billed woodpecker is one of the largest woodpeckers in the world at roughly 51 centimetres (20 in; 1.67 ft) long and 76 centimetres (30 in; 2.49 ft) in wingspan. It is the largest woodpecker in its range.
If it is not extinct, it is the world's largest woodpecker species, at 56–60 cm (22–23.5 in) long. [3] Owing to its close taxonomic relationship, and its similarity in appearance, to the ivory-billed woodpecker ( C. principalis ), it is sometimes called the Mexican ivory-billed woodpecker , but this name is also used for the extant pale ...
With the likely extinction of the ivory-billed and imperial woodpeckers (Campephilus imperialis), the Magellanic woodpecker is the largest living species of the genus Campephilus. With an average weight of 339 g (12.0 oz) in males and 291 g (10.3 oz) in females, it is perhaps the heaviest certainly extant woodpecker in the Americas. [5] [6]
In 2021, the agency seemed ready to declare the so-called Lord God Bird extinct: The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to remove 23 species, including the ivory-billed woodpecker, from ...
New video and photographs purporting to show ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest were published by researchers on Thursday, as government officials said they will make a final ...
The extinction status of the ivory-billed woodpecker is still up for debate, as ornithologists are mixed on the bird’s existence. A new study claims to have documented the presence of birds with ...
It is the largest confirmed extant woodpecker species in North America, with the possible exception of the ivory-billed woodpecker, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed be reclassified as extinct. It is also the third largest extant species of woodpecker in the world, after the great slaty woodpecker and the black woodpecker.
Despite possibilities that it has survived in some deep swamp forests in Arkansas or Florida, the ivory-billed is also generally considered to have gone extinct. [133] The great slaty woodpecker ( Mulleripicus pulverulentus ) of southeast Asia is the largest woodpecker certain to exist, with a weight of up to 500 g (1.1 lb) and a length of up ...