What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Ivory-billed Woodcreeper been recorded?

Xiphorhynchus flavigaster occurrence evidence comes from 783 records in 7 countries and territories, from 1883 to 2026. Most records come from Mexico.

Ivory-billed Woodcreeper
Ivory-billed Woodcreeper — Photo (display-sized rendition): Ninahale · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesFurnariidaeXiphorhynchus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

783 records across 7 countries and territories, 1883–2026.

Xiphorhynchus flavigaster · GBIF taxon key 5230178

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: February.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18832026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Ivory-billed Woodcreeper has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Ivory-billed Woodcreeper. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Mexico 608
El Salvador 73
Honduras 48
Guatemala 26
Belize 12
Nicaragua 10
Costa Rica 6

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.