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Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Scientific name
- Campephilus principalis
- Family
- Picidae
- Conservation status
- Critically endangered
- Habitat
- Forest deciduous
- Wing shape
- Broad
- Tail shape
- Pointed
Where it came from
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker, known as the Lord God Bird for its majestic appearance, was once the largest woodpecker in North America. Primarily inhabiting the old-growth bottomland hardwood forests of the American South, its population plummeted in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries due to the aggressive logging of virgin timber and intensive hunting by collectors who prized the bird's distinctive plumage and bill.
The bird was famously illustrated by John James Audubon for his 'The Birds of America' series in the 1830s. Audubon captured the species in a dramatic, life-sized oil painting, depicting the male with its signature crimson crest and stark black-and-white wing patterns. While Audubon's work serves as the definitive historical visual record, the species is now generally considered extinct, with the last widely accepted sightings occurring in the mid-twentieth century.
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