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Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Campephilus principalis

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Picidae

The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is a woodpecker native to the Southern United States and Cuba. Habitat destruction and hunting have reduced populations so severely that the last universally accepted sighting in the United States was in 1944, and the last universally accepted sighting in Cuba was in 1987. The ivory-bill was the largest woodpecker in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 3