The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was once a common sight throughout the Southeastern United States. That is no longer the case. As with the Passenger Pigeon it was man’s short-sightedness that brought it to the brink of extinction. Large tracts of old growth forest, which the Ivory-billed Woodpecker depended on, were clear-cut. Hunting was a free-for-all with no limits or restrictions.
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