Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)
About the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) 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. 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". 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.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 6 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-SA · 1 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in United States in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Crimson-bellied WoodpeckerCampephilus haematogasterrecording
- Powerful WoodpeckerCampephilus pollensrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.