Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Campephilus principalis

The ivory-billed woodpecker 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.

Scientific name

Campephilus principalis

Family

Woodpeckers

IUCN status

CR