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One of the largest of all woodpeckers, it is thought it be extinct in it’s native home of the southeast United States. Due to deforestation, and it’s tendency to live in only virgin forests, sightings of the bird have been rare to this day, it is it thought extinct entirely, or too low in numbers to be sustainable.
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Many scholars believe that recent sightings (last 10 years or so) were actually Pileated Woodpeckers misidentified as Ivory-Bills. Very sad, especially that there WERE conservation attempts in the 30's to save the last documented nesting grounds, but of course failed against some logging company that owned that land in the South.
Hopefully, these guys get put on the "short list" of species that geneticists are looking to "de-extinct" along with primarily the woolly mammoth, passenger pigeon, dodo, and thylacine. Presuming of course no one actually finds definitive proof of any pair living RIGHT NOW...
Hopefully, these guys get put on the "short list" of species that geneticists are looking to "de-extinct" along with primarily the woolly mammoth, passenger pigeon, dodo, and thylacine. Presuming of course no one actually finds definitive proof of any pair living RIGHT NOW...
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