Campephilus principalis
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is a striking, crow-sized bird with glossy black plumage contrasted by bold white markings on its neck and wings. Its most distinctive feature is a large, pale, ivory-colored bill and a prominent red crest on males.
Females closely resemble males but lack the red crest; instead, they have black crests. Both sexes display white secondary feathers, visible as a large white panel on the lower half of the wing when folded.
Juveniles appear similar to adult females, with black rather than red crests.
Length
48cm to 53cm
Wingspan
76cm to 80cm
Weight
450g to 570g
Woodland
Garden
Wetland
Coastal
Urban
Farmland
Grassland
Desert
Tundra
Rainforest
Mountain
Savanna
Historically, Ivory-billed Woodpeckers inhabited old-growth bottomland hardwood forests and cypress swamps in the southeastern United States, from North Carolina to Florida and west to eastern Texas and Arkansas.
Their range also extended to Cuba. Today, if any populations remain, they would likely be confined to remote, undisturbed forest areas in the southeastern U.S. or Cuba.
Up to 1,000 meters
Subtropical
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