Possible Encounters of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers 1944 to Present
Jackson County
1986
Black River
Congaree 1970, 1981
Cache/White 1971, 1984
Rivers 2004,2005
Downstream of Lake
Marion 1959-1967
Tallahatchie/Yalobusha
Rivers 1988
Ogeechee River
Noxubee River 1973
1973
Altamaha River
Tensas River Yazoo River 1958
Basin 1948, 1962, Delta 1987, 1988
1981-82 Red Hills Region Okefenokee-Pinhook
Pascagoula River Apalachicola NF 1958, 1963 Swamp 1946-1948
1960, 1978, 1982 Wakulla Station/ Stephen C. Foster
Sabine River St. Marks 1952 State Park 1965
1985 Aucilla River
Eglin AFB 1959
The Big Thicket 1966
1958-1985 Pearl River
Apalachicola-Chipola
Atchafalaya Basin 1999 River 1950s, 1970s, 2003 Wekiva River
1971, 1973, 1974, Homosassa 1987-1988
1981, 1982, 1986
Green Swamp
Haines City 1967 NW of Lake Okeechobee
1967-1969 (11 sightings)
Highlands
Hammock 1968 Jonathan Dickinson
Legend State Park 1985
Since the ivory-bill’s last confirmed
Possible encounters sighting in the United States at the Big Cypress-
1944-present Singer Tract in 1944, there have Fakahatchee 1950
been many unconfirmed reports of the
Bottomland hardwoods bird. Data taken from “In Search of the
Ivory-billed Woodpecker” by Jerome A.
Original range Jackson and USFWS files.
Range in 1885