Ivory-billed woodpecker: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the ivory-billed woodpecker lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Campephilus principalis
Group	Woodpeckers, kingfishers, hornbills & toucans
Status	Critically endangered (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	North America
Mass	13 g (birth weight)
Diet (main food)	insect
Class	Bird
Order	Piciformes
Family	Picidae

Where does the ivory-billed woodpecker live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the ivory-billed woodpecker in 1 country or territory across North America.

United States

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is an ivory-billed woodpecker?

Wikidata records the following for the ivory-billed woodpecker: mass 13 g (birth weight).

What does an ivory-billed woodpecker eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the ivory-billed woodpecker as: insect.

Is the ivory-billed woodpecker endangered?

The ivory-billed woodpecker’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Critically endangered” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the ivory-billed woodpecker?

The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is a bird in the order Piciformes and the family Picidae, genus Campephilus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

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.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Ivory-billed woodpecker (revision 1381274432), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q756063 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).