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The last unchallenged sighting in the United States of the ivory-billed woodpecker, an “iconic species” with a distinct red crest, was in 1944.
Federal wildlife officials said Monday they are delaying a long-awaited decision to declare the ivory-billed woodpecker ... The government’s last accepted sighting of the red-crowned bird ...
The ivory-billed woodpecker was perhaps the best known species the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday will announce is extinct. Others such as the flat pigtoe, a freshwater mussel in the ...
At that time, he estimated there were 22–24 birds remaining, of which 6–8 were on the Singer tract. The last universally accepted sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker in the United States was made on the Singer tract by Audubon Society artist Don Eckelberry in April 1944, [84] when logging of the tract was nearly complete. [85]
There are a handful of more recent, unconfirmed sightings, [11] the most recent of which closely followed the 2005 publication of the purported rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Lammertink et al. (1996), after extensively reviewing post-1956 reports, conclude that the species did indeed survive into the 1990s in the central part of ...
The nominate subspecies, the American ivory-billed woodpecker (C. p. principalis), is officially classified as critically endangered and considered possibly extinct by some authorities. The Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker (C. p. bairdii) is generally considered to be extinct, but a few patches of unsurveyed potential habitat remain.
The ivory-billed woodpecker, also known as the “Lord God Bird,” is on the verge of extinction and inhabits similar areas, the petitioners note.
The Cuban ivory-billed woodpecker (Spanish: carpintero real) [2] (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.