Ivory-billed woodpecker
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The elusive ivory-billed woodpecker was officially declared extinct in 1994, but the bird was believed to have died off decades earlier. At about 20 inches long and 30 inches from wing to wing, it’s one of the world’s largest woodpeckers. And despite hard evidence, various reports have led scientists to believe the woodpecker still persists.
However even if there are still living ivory-billed woodpeckers, the population would be so tiny that the IUCN has classified the species as critically endangered.
