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Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)

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

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Habitat: Formerly, populations extended throughout the southeastern United States but logging and forest
Diet: Primarily insects, occasionally fruit and nuts. To capture insects, the ivory billed woodpecker strips away bark from recently dead, upright trees.
Status: Endangered. Previously thought to have been extinct but recently sighted in the Big Woods area of Arkansas.
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