Ivory-billed Woodpecker declared extinct

The US Fish & Wildlife Service has officially declared the iconic Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis extinct, along with ten other bird species including Bachman’s Warbler Vermivora bachmanii and eight species endemic to Hawaii.

The last universally accepted sighting of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the USA was in Louisi

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