Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ivory-billed woodpecker" in English language version.
until 1986, when Lester Short of the American Museum of Natural History and his colleagues announced seeing Ivory-bills in the mountains of eastern Cuba...The last sighting in Cuba was in 1987.
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis has suffered from destruction of its habitat over the whole of its range, being last recorded in eastern Cuba (Ojito de Agua) in 1987.
BIRDS OF VIRGINIA....Picus principalis...White bill woodpecker
Our Committee felt that given the lack of definitive evidence of this species' occurrence on the Choctawhatchee River, the species is best considered still extinct in Florida.
Our Committee felt that given the lack of definitive evidence of this species' occurrence on the Choctawhatchee River, the species is best considered still extinct in Florida.