The very name of its genus, Campephilus, meant grub-loving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

The last official sighting of an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker or Campephilus principalis was 1944.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Status of the ivory-billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis in Cuba: Almost certainly extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Caribbean Islands] Reference

The spectacular ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), which once ranged throughout Cuba and the bottomlands of the southeastern United States, has not been recorded in Cuba since 1987.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Caribbean Islands] Reference

Research published today in the open access journal BMC Biology shows how fleeting images thought to be the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Campephilus principalis could be another native woodpecker species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

Using video analysis, Collinson argues that ornithologists have confused the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) with the similar Pileated Woodpecker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

(Campephilus principalis) in eastern Arkansas, in what seemed to be the first documented sighting of a creature thought to have become extinct at least 50 years earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Scientist Online] Reference

Among the avifauna, most birds of the subpolar Nothofagus forests extend their ranges to the north into the Valdivian forests such as the conspicuous firecrown hummingbird (Sephanoides sephanoides), Magellanic woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus), rayadito (Aphractura spinicauda), Austral parakeet (Enicognathus ferrrugineus), and black throated huet-huet (Pteroptochos tarnii).    From Wordnik.com.  [Magellanic subpolar forests] Reference

Birds are also highly diverse, most notable because they are endemic to the island including the olive-capped warbler (Dendroica pityophila), the critically endangered Cuban kite (Chondrohierax wilsonii), the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), which is gravely in danger of becoming extinct given how rare it is and that only a few individuals may survive, the Cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus), rose-throated parrot (Amazona leucocephala leucocephala and A.l. palmarum) and the Cuban tody (Todus multicolor).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuban pine forests] Reference

Campephilus principalis) are in the news in a major way.    From Wordnik.com.  [BIRDS ETCETERA—Birds, Birding, Birders, and Birdwatching] Reference

Birds that can be mentioned are the fairy hummingbird, "zunzuncito" or "pájaro mosca" (Mellisuga helenae), known as the smallest bird in the world, the Cuban trogan or "tocororo" (Priotelus temnurus), the ivory-billed woodpecker or "carpintero real" (Campephilus principalis), the Cuban solitaire (Myadestes elizabeth), the hook-billed kite (Chondrohierax wilsonii), the red-legged honey-creeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus), the Cuban parakeet (Aratinga euops), the stigian owl or "siguapa" (Asio stygius), and the Gundlach’s hawk (Accipiter gundlachi).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuban moist forests] Reference