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Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Campephilus principalis

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Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Campephilus principalis.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker - Campephilus principalis.

Image © Arthur A. Allen/Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is the world's second largest woodpecker. The ivory-billed woodpecker has a red crest, black and white body, and an ivory colored bill.
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Classification:

  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum Chordata
  • Class Aves
  • Order Piciformes
  • Family Picidae
  • Genus Campephilus
  • Species Campephilus principalis

Where to See:

Formerly, populations extended throughout the southeastern United States but logging and forest

References:

  • Burnie D, Wilson DE. 2001. Animal. London: Dorling Kindersley. 624 p.

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