Ivory billed woodpecker

Around the world hundreds of bird species, such as this ivory-billed woodpecker, are in danger of extinction.

Ivory billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis). Magnificent native of virgin forests in the southeastern US. Since we like to hunt, and even more critically, we destroyed all the virgin forests ... there are no Ivory billed Woodpeckers anymore. We killed off a big one and continue to cause mass extinctions. Congratulations, homo sapiens: miserable, arrogant species who thinks we are better than all others. Painting by Laura G. Young, from specimens at the Denver Museum of Nature…

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Carl Brenders Ivory Billed Woodpecker

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We look at facts about the ivory-billed woodpecker, including what we know about this species and if they really are extinct.

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…