Nurney (1995) Woodpeckers: a guide to the woodpeckers of the world.
Imperial woodpecker series#
Monograph Series 4, Delaware Museum of Natural History, Greenville, DE, USA.
imperialis) of Mexico, and the next being the Great Slaty Woodpecker ( Mulleripicus pulverulentus) of Southeast Asia ( Short 1982 ) illustration and description, gave it the specific name principalis, believing it was the largest of woodpeckers, although the Ivory-billed in fact stands third to fifth in the hierarchy of picid size - the largest being the congeneric Imperial Woodpecker ( C. Linnaeus, basing his description on Catesby's ( Catesby 1731 Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amerique septentrionale. The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. Colonial naturalists such as Catesby, Wilson, Vieillot, and Audubon all expounded on this “largest” of all woodpeckers ( Catesby 1731Ĭatesby, M. Indeed, this species is an “aristocrat” in appearance among woodpeckers: Its great stature, heavy, ivory-colored, chisel-tipped bill, pale lemon-yellow eyes, crisp black-and-white markings, distinctive crest, and lean, long appearance distinguish it from all others. To John James Audubon, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker brought thoughts of the “satin and lace” portraits of the genteel by the seventeenth-century artist Van Dyke.
This account will be updated in 2017 to reflect developments. Editor's Note: Due to a recent taxonomic revision, this species account is still being edited and may contain content from an earlier version of the account.Įditor's Note (February 2017) -Since reported (and controversial) sightings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the Big Woods of northeastern Arkansas in 2004 (Science: June 2005), extensive efforts to locate this species in Arkansas, Florida, and elsewhere have proven difficult, and no unequivocal evidence of the species has emerged.
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