ivorybill

The ivorybill largely relied on dense, tall stands of pine trees.

The female was similar but the crest was all black and (unlike the Ivorybill) recurved at the top.

His report was given credibility because he knows the Pearl River woods and their wildlife, and would not easily have confused the ivorybill with anything else.

The possibility that any bird said to be extinct might still be around is exhilarating, but the ivorybill, in particular, has what environmentalists refer to as "charisma," a.

A fossil ivorybill species, Campephilus dalquesti, was described from bones found in Late Pleistocene deposits of Scurry County.

Given the celebrity status of the ivorybill woodpecker among birders, it is understandable that the Audubon Society would want to draw attention to its possible location in Cuba.

The English names ivory-billed woodpecker or ivorybill are sometimes used to refer to members of this genus, though more these are used specifically for Campephilus principalis.

Meanwhile the National Audubon Society is giving technical assistance to Cuban ornithologists, who have fanned out across Cuba's 123,000-acre Sierra Maestra, once an important part of the ivorybill's range.

Due to its close relationship and similarity to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, it is sometimes also called "Mexican Ivorybill" but this name is also used for the Pale-billed Woodpecker.

The title refers to patches of country so wild it seemed to the young Kilgo that they still might hide a few last ivorybill woodpeckers, long believed extinct in that part of the South.

To the Editor: Re "The Elusive Ivorybill" (Topics of The Times, May 24): You describe the magnificent, endangered woodpecker and its possible survival in the Sierra Maestra in Cuba.

From time to time sightings have been reported, but invariably these have been written off as glimpses of the lookalike pileated woodpecker, a smaller version that averages 16 inches in length compared with the ivorybill's 19 inches.