Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Common
Name: Ivory-billed Woodpecker (IBWO)
Scientific
Name:
Campephilus principalis
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: IUCN
2004 Red List – CR (Critically Endangered)
National-level
Conservation Status: U.S. Endangered Species Act
- Endangered
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 711 (Jackson 2002); Species account in U.S. South Florida
multi-species recovery plan (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1999)
Distribution:
Resident formerly from e Texas, se Oklahoma, e Arkansas, e
Missouri, s Illinois, Kentucky, and se North Carolina south to the Gulf
Coast and s Florida and formerly in Cuba - nearing extinction if not
already extinct (AOU 1998). Recently rediscovered in the Big Woods region of southeastern Arkansas (April 2005)
Habitat
Associations:
Mature lowland deciduous forest, especially swamps, and less
frequently pines;
Cuba
- both montane & lower forest (pine and deciduous); more recently
reported from secondary deciduous woodland and partially cleared pinelands
(AOU 1998)
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs: BNA No.
711 (Jackson 2002); PIF Monitoring Needs document (Partners in Flight
Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: **
(Long-term population trend monitoring considered adequate, but some
issues (e.g., bias) may not be accounted for)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
See
Recovery Plan for additional needs.
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – NOTE: Current surveys provide acceptable data at
the continental level (PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Maintain current species-specific
surveys (PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
- Document
any existing living birds and unobtrusively document interactions with
their ecosystems (BNA)
Genetics/Taxonomy/Systematics
- Continue
efforts to identify and inventory existing specimens; maximize efforts
to link specimens with data; retrieving/archiving DNA for IBWO (BNA)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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