The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was Widely Assumed to Have Gone

Question

The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was widely assumed to have gone extinct because of
A) habitat destruction.
B) overharvesting.
C) draining of swamps.
D) introduced avian malaria.
E) DDT.

Accepted Answer

The Ivory Billed Woodpecker was primarily driven to presumed extinction due to habitat destruction, particularly the logging of the old-growth forests in the southeastern United States where it lived.