Ivory-Billed+Woodpecker


 * //Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Campephilus Principalis)// **

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The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is a member of the //Picdae// family. It was considered extinct until 2004 when it was spotted in the Big Woods of Arkansas. It is known as a critically endangered species.



The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is the second largest woodpecker in the world and the largest in the United States. The woodpecker is shiny black-blue with white markings on its neck and back. The crest of the bird is black for young and females, while the males crest is black along its edge and changing randomly to red on its side and read. The chin of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is black. Their beaks are not made of ivory but bone covered with keratin. The woodpeckers estimated length is 19.5 inches from beak to tail tip. Most people mistaken the Pileated Woodpecker for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker ** __Diet:__ ** The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker feeds mostly on larvae of wood-boring beetles. They also eat seeds, fruit and other insects. These birds will wedge its giant beak into the bark of dead trees and peel it back to find insect s. They need 25 km for a pair to be able to have enough for theirselves and their young.
 * __Description:__ **

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is known to have a pair for life. These pairs will travel together and will mate every year between January and May. They will dig a nest in a dead or dying tree before laying their eggs. These birds can lay between two to five eggs. Both parents are involved in taking care of these chicks, while the male taking more repsonsibilty at night. The parents will feed their chicks for months even after they have learned to fly. Usually in late fall or early winter, the family will split up.
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 * __Population:__ ** unknown

It was found endangered on March 11, 1967. A decline in their population is due to logging, mining, and the building of plantations. People are the main cause of the lost of woodpeckers because they have cut down the trees, dug up land and rippped apart their habitat.
 * __Endangered:__ **

As of April 2009, a $50,0000 reward is being offered by the "Nature Conservancy" for information leading to the discovery of an ivory-billed woodpecker nest, roost or feeding site. Conservationists are planning land acquisition and restoration efforts to protect any possible surviving woodpeckers.
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The Endangered Species Act is a law that enables the conservation of species that are either threatened or endangered throughout their significant area of were they live and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend on.
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