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Project Principalis has released new evidence in Ecology and Evolution supporting the persistence of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in Louisiana.
Learn MoreFollowing the release earlier this year of cumulative evidence, the long-running search submitted additional video showing an apparent Ivory-billed Woodpecker Links: New video evidence Comments from Mark Michaels to…
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The National Aviary, along with Project Principalis, is delighted to announce that we have made available to the public the results to date of our search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker….
Learn More The National Aviary, along with Project Principalis, is delighted to announce that we have made available to the public the results to date of our search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker….
Learn More History of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Before European contact, some Native American nations valued the heads and bills of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, and these body parts were traded widely. Ivorybills also appear…
Learn More New Peer-Reviewed Paper about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Encouraged by the recent announcement of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to postpone the delisting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis),…
Learn More The Ivory-billed Woodpecker and the Spectrum of Extinction Written by Jay Tiscehndorf, DVM As a starting point for this musing, I hope readers will agree that many facets and phenomena…
Learn More Meet the members of the core Project Principalis search team Dr. Steven C. Latta is the Director of Conservation and Field Research at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. A native…
Learn More Find publications from the Project Principalis team here. Latta, S. C., M. A. Michaels, T. C. Michot, P. L. Shrum, P. Johnson, J. Tischendorf, M. Weeks, J. Trochet, D. Scheifler,…
Learn More Like other woodpeckers, Ivorybills leave a mark on the trees they use for foraging. There’s something distinctive, and potentially diagnostic, about the Ivorybill’s signature of “bark scaling.” Written by Mark…
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