Ivory-billed Woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis ) Persists in Continental North America

3 June 2005

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Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 308 (5727) , 1460-1462
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1114103

Abstract

The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), long suspected to be extinct, has been rediscovered in the Big Woods region of eastern Arkansas. Visual encounters during 2004 and 2005, and analysis of a video clip from April 2004, confirm the existence of at least one male. Acoustic signatures consistent with Campephilus display drums also have been heard from the region. Extensive efforts to find birds away from the primary encounter site remain unsuccessful, but potential habitat for a thinly distributed source population is vast (over 220,000 hectares).

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