Once found in virgin old growth forests throughout the southeastern United States, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was believed to be extinct for many years. The largest woodpecker north of Mexico and the third largest in the world, the Ivory-bill inhabited mature swampy forests and fed on beetle larvae that infested dead and dying trees. By the 1930’s, nearly all of their habitat had been destroyed. The last known and scientifically recognized photographs of this species were taken by James Tanner, Cornell researcher, in 1938. Evidence reported in 2005 gave the world renewed hope that this species still survives in the Big Woods of eastern Arkansas.
My Ivory-billed Woodpecker Art
