The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was the largest woodpecker in North America and possibly the largest in the world, and may now be extinct — it was last confirmed in the United States in 1944 before possible sightings in Arkansas in 2004 triggered a massive, inconclusive search. The male had a striking ivory bill and brilliant red crest; both sexes had a large white wing patch visible at rest. Its loss would be a tragic consequence of logging the bottomland forests of the American South.
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