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The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is a woodpecker native to the Southern United States and Cuba.[a] 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.[3][4][5][6] The ivory-bill was the largest woodpecker in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. Naturalist John James Audubon described it as the "Great chieftain of the woodpecker tribe".[7] In adults, the bill is ivory in color, hence the species' common name, and the plumage is deep black and white, with a red crest in males. The bird was commonly found in bottomland hardwood forests, including dense swampland, and in temperate coniferous forests. Its diet consists of large beetle larvae, particularly wood-boring Cerambycidae beetles, supplemented by vegetable matter, including southern magnolia, pecans, acorns, hickory nuts, wild grapes, an

Ivory-billed woodpecker - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Species of bird This article may contain an excessive number of citations . Please help improve it by removing low-quality or irrelevant citations or redistributing those citations so there are fewer than four in a row. ( March 2026 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Not to be confused with Ivory-billed woodcreeper . Ivory-billed woodpecker Photograph of a male ivory-billed woodpecker leaving the nest as the female returns, taken on the Singer Tract, Louisiana, April 1935, by Arthur A. Allen

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