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Takeaways:
- The ivory-billed woodpecker is the third largest woodpecker in the world and the largest north of Mexico.
- A research team from the National Aviary and Project Principalis has found evidence that at least three ivory-billed woodpeckers are living in the bottomland forests of the researchers’ study site in Louisiana.
- The size and markings in the photos of the bird recorded by the researchers indicates that it was an ivorybill and not another type of woodpecker.