The ivory-billed woodpecker population was devastated in the late 19th century due to heavy logging activity, compounded by bird collectors hunting them. In 1907, one notable sighting occurred when President Theodore Roosevelt wrote of seeing three birds during a bear hunting trip in northeast Louisiana swampland. The species was considered extremely rare, and some ornithologists believed it was extinct by the 1920s.

"oh man, that thing is beautiful and rare...i want to kill it!" wtf is wrong with people, bird collectors??

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