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The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is a woodpecker native to the bottomland hardwood forests and temperate coniferous forests of the Southern United States and Cuba. [ a ] Habitat destruction and hunting have reduced populations severely, such that the last universally accepted sighting in the United States was in 1944, and ...
PHOTO: This is a photo of A stuffed male ivory billed woodpecker, is displayed, May 2, 2005, in the main lobby at the New York State Museum in Albany, N.Y. (Jim Mcknight/AP)
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The Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker (Spanish: carpintero real) [1] (Campephilus principalis bairdii) is a subspecies of the ivory-billed woodpecker native to Cuba.Originally classified as a separate species, recent research has indicated that C. p. bairdii may, in fact, be sufficiently distinct from the nominate subspecies to once again be regarded as a species in its own right.
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 ...
Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker extinct, months after grainy photos and videos emerged that purported to ...
“The ivory-billed woodpecker was symbolic of the endangered species in America for a very long time and a lot of people, myself included in the late 60s and early 70s, were inspired by the ...
It includes images of five extinct birds and three more possibly extinct birds: Carolina parakeet, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, great auk, pinnated grouse, and, possibly, the Eskimo curlew, Ivory-billed woodpecker, and Bachman's warbler.