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.

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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.

The Ivory Billed Woodpecker Was Widely Assumed to Have Gone