Campephilus principalis


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Related to Campephilus principalis: Ivory Billed Woodpecker
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Noun1.Campephilus principalis - large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory billCampephilus principalis - large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct
peckerwood, woodpecker, pecker - bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Campephilus, genus Campephilus - a genus of Picidae
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The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) was last known to exist in 1944.
And a professor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock came up with a brief video that helped convince experts from the renowned Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology that at least one male Campephilus principalis survived six decades after its last reliable sighting in the United States.
Until its rediscovery on the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas of 2004, most people would have said that the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) was extinct.