![]() The last Ivory Bills were found in a tract of woods in northeastern Louisiana owned by the Singer Sewing Corporation. By the 1920s, Ivory Bills were almost gone as hunters decimated the remaining populations. A separate population bred in the mountains of eastern Cuba.ĭuring the 1800s the species became increasingly scarce as its preferred old-growth bottomland forest and longleaf pine woods were cleared for lumber and to make room for agriculture. The species was formerly widespread in the southeastern United States, from the coastal plain of Texas across to Florida and up to North Carolina, and also in the lower Mississippi River Valley north to southern Illinois. ![]() The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is no doubt one of America’s most spectacular bird species, but it is also one of the saddest chapters in bird conservation.
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