They belong to the Picidae family and now, due to the destruction of their habitat, they are almost extinct.  Ivory-billed woodpeckers inhabit old-age forests of bottomlands and swamps with lots of dead trees. These places provide food and nesting sites. 

Their diet contains larvae, fruit and insects. Ivory-billed woodpeckers’ day and night activities consist of nesting in tree-holes and searching tree-trunks for larvae.  

Due to the destruction of their habitat from human activities such as mining and logging, the number of these creatures has drastically decreased. Researchers believe that the remaining birds are living somewhere between southern Florida and Cuba. These rare birds were last sighted in 1987 and again in 1991 in Ojito de Auga, Cuba.  Since then, there have been a number of conservation projects aimed at protecting the area where these birds were last seen. 

As for me, I’d like for us to do whatever we can to help save the ivory-billed woodpeckers, because if we don’t, soon these wonderful birds will be yet another animal to become extinct.    

Written by / geschreven door : Hannah

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