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Show Largest of All Woodpeckers Largest and handsomest of all woodpeckers is the ivory-bill which is as large as a crow 21 inches long. It is named for its ivory white daggrr-Iike bill, with which it can dig through a tree. A famed naturalist nat-uralist once look a wounded ivory-bill ivory-bill to his hotel room, left it there alone less than an hour. When he returned, the bird had hacked down a mass of plaster from one wail, pecked a fist-size hole through the laths and was working on the wcjtlher boards. Eluish black of body, the ivory-bill has a flaming red crest and a white stripe along the neck. |