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The Ivory-billed Woodpecker
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Gustav Mutzel Until February of 2004, the last confirmed sightings of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers were in 1972 in East Texas and Lousiana and in Cuba in 1986.
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Rex Brasher Ivory-billed Woodpeckers are 19 to 21 inches long. Wings 9.75 to 10.75 inches. Generally glossy blue-black, tail and primaries duller black or less distinct bluish gloss. |
Chester A. Reed White ends of secondaries, inner primaries, scapulars under wing-coverts, and sometimes on the tips of a few feathers on flanks and rump. |
Charles R. Knight The male Ivory-billed Woodpecker has a long scarlet-red crest with black front. The Female crest is wholly glossy blue-black. |
Clear lemon-yellow iris. White, or ivory-white mandible, 2.5 - 2.75 inches. White nasal plumes. |
John L. Ridgway
The Ivory billed Woodpecker lifespan can be up to 15 years.
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