Campephilus Species

There are either 11 or 12 Campephilus species depending on how the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is classified.  For more details, see a separate post at this link.

RANGE MAPS

Click on a species name to see its range map at Avibase, courtesy of NatureServe.

Cream-backed Woodpecker (Campephilus leucopogon)

Crimson-bellied Woodpecker (Campephilus heamatogaster)

Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos)

Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis bairdii)

Guayaquil Woodpecker (Campephilus gayaquilensis)

Imperial Woodpecker (Campephilus imperialis)

Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)

Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus)

Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis)

Powerful Woodpecker (Campephilus pollens)

Red-necked Woodpecker (Campephilus rubricollis)

Robust Woodpecker (Campephilus robustus)

Various other sites offer the range map and other species information for each Campephilus woodpecker.   See, for example, this page at Xeno-canto:

Species Overview page for the Crimson-bellied Woodpecker

Campephilus Subspecies

At Avibase, the Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker is listed as a subspecies of the US Ivory-billed Woodpecker along with several other Campephilus subspecies.  Follow this logo link, then enter "Campephilus" in the search box to retrieve the list with subspecies:

Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker Photo by John Dennis

Originally posted 1/16/11 - backdated to organize posts by topic.

Wikipedia has posted this photo by John Dennis with the following information:

...showing a male Cuban Ivory-Bill from a last remnant of Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers in Cuba (Auk) Volume 65, Number 4, October, 1948.  This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 with a copyright notice, and its copyright was not renewed. 

Find the Wikipedia entry here.

On a related note, a post entitled Valle de Vinales at another blog says that Dr. Giraldo Alayon is currently working on a book about the Cuban ivory-billed Woodpecker.

Read the post here.

The Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker

It was nice to find this photo of a Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker specimen recently on Flickr, which was taken and posted there by Jim Forrest.  Jim wrote about this photo:

Found this specimen in a small Natural History Museum in Gibara, Cuba during a recent visit. Could not get info except that it was donated by Joaquin de la Vara a Naturalist from the area who donated many specimens to the museum. 

Quite a while ago, Jim also shared this photo of a pair of Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpeckers specimens with the related group I run on Flickr.   Jim wrote:

In Holguin, Cuba there are 2 specimens of Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpeckers at the Carlos Torres Natural History Museum in Holguin, Cuba which I have photos of also.

Both photos are posted here with his kind permission.

For 4 additional photos of this bird, see Tim Gallagher's article from 2007 here at Cornell''s site:

Four previously unpublished photographs of Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpeckers

Also, Wikipedia has a fairly substantial entry on this bird with an array of reference links here:

Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker at Wikipedia

Ivory-billed Woodpecker Classification

There are either 11 or 12 Campephilus species depending on how the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is classified.  Scientists who analyzed mitochondrial DNA of museum specimens reported in 2006 that their data suggested that the Cuban Ivory-billed Woodpecker and the US Ivory-billed Woodpecker should be considered as separate species in Mid-Pleistocene divergence of Cuban and North American ivory-billed woodpeckers by Robert C. Fleischer, et al., Biol Lett. 2006 September 22; 2(3): 466–469.  Published online 2006 May 16. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0490.  

Historically, they had been considered to be the same species. 

The American Ornithologists' Union Committee on Classification and Nomenclature is the ultimate authority on the issue, according to the issue of BirdWatch at this link.