Scientists have warned that we are on the brink of a catastrophic extinction event if we do not cap global warming at 1.5º C. The ivory-billed woodpecker, a ghostly bird whose long-rumored survival in the bottomland swamps of the South has haunted seekers for generations, will be officially declared extinct by U.S. The group, which also includes a freshwater mussel called the flat pigtoe, now joins some 900 species documented as extinct around the world. It went out stubbornly and with fanfare, making unconfirmed appearances in recent decades that ignited a frenzy of ultimately fruitless searches in the swamps of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday will announce is extinct. “A bird this iconic, and this representative of the major old-growth forests of the southeast, keeping it on the list of endangered species keeps attention on it, keeps states thinking about managing habitat on the off chance it still exists,” he added.Īll 23 were thought to have a chance of survival when they were put on the endangered species list, but pollution, logging, poaching and invasive species made their changes minuscule. The ivory-billed woodpecker was perhaps the best known species the U.S. Entire forests across the South were decimated, especially during World War II. It is similar in size and shape to the pileated woodpecker that exists in. Then, in the 1930’s and 40’s, the logging industry took off. The ivory-billed woodpecker is the largest woodpecker species in the United States. “Little is gained and much is lost,” by putting animals on the extinction list, said Cornell University bird biologist John Fitzpatrick. The ivory-billed woodpecker was a prized, rare find. Perhaps the most well-known of the newly extinct species was the American ivory-billed woodpecker, a striking bird that was native to the southeastern United States but has not had a confirmed sighting in the country since 1944. From 20062010 the Cornell Lab and its partners conducted an intensive search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in bottomland hardwood forests in the southeastern United States.
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