Ivory Billed Woodpecker

[singingturkeys]

In many rural communities where there exists proper habitat for the Ivory Bill, the ignorant residents have a myth that Pileated Woodpeckers actually kill trees, not live off dead and dying ones. Thus they shoot them out of this ignorance. The BEST thing we can do is identify Ivory Bills, create a tourism income stream for the area and get the trigger happy rednecks to shop shooting!

[pete49327]

They are still searching because the bird is still extinct! Never in my life have I seen the public and media fall all over themselves this hard in blind stupor and gullibility! The "video" is totally inconclusive and is on par with the infamous Big Foot film showing the prankster lumbering through the woods in a cheap gorilla suit.  Maybe the Ivory Billed is Big Foot's pet bird.

[stivosimz]

I just got back from a wedding in Hot Springs Arkansas. On June 29th I went hiking in the Petit Jean Mountains and I have what I believe is an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker photo. I also have a video clip. My camera that I was using has only a 3X's zoom but I'd like to know if I have the bird on film. I can be contacted at 262-620-3107. Ask for Steve.

[krlaing]

Sitting on the front porch in rural South Arkansas, I just saw two ivory-billed woodpeckers!! Amazing!!!

[inkydoug]

The Ivory bill is gone,They were large conspicous birds,abroad by day,habitually calling loudly and very distinctivly.Decades of UFO style reports are a certain,but unintentional, death certificate. They were the King of the woodpeckers.Their kingdom has passed away,and them with it .PLEASE use your rightful passion for the wild to protect what we stll have.

[Xanxus29]

Human Are Abusing this world...

animal kingdom is now threaten by Us!!!

[Yeppr]

I SHOT IT last week..we aint had nothing to eat since Daddy sold the fishin boat and we was hungry. Please send me money and I'll mail you the ivory bill we done licked it dry

[dltanner99]

Cryptozoology novel about two boys who find something strange on the beach one night see video book trailer

[Dennis23457]

it is funny all the people giving thier oppions on is it or is it not an Ivory billed like they see them every day . If you know wild life you can pick out things to Identify . in this video To me on what I have read and studied on the ivory billed it is one in this video .I think and was pretty sure I saw one in the Great dismal swamp 2 years ago . Deep in the swamp while hunting,and I say this because as a hunter we are allowed to go deeper into refuges than the average person

[buckyblue7]

ok so i live in some of the most reclusive appalachin mountains and i started climbing this mountain hunting for squirls ( a practice run) its sunday... but i saw two large birds that i thought were turkeys kinda low on this tree but as i got closer they flew away and they werent turkeys confused on why i saw such large redheaded woodpeckers i went back down telling my father that there were squirls up there that we could hunt later on and that i saw woodpeckers as big as turkeys he told me to

[hunt458]

The patches of white in this video look like a duck. An Ivory Bill doesn't flap his wings that fast and has a much bigger wingspan.

[reptileexperts]

@hunt458 Watch the 2 hour presentation done by Fitzpatrick at Cornell and then read your comment again. The Ivory-billed Woodpecker has a flap rate from take off of 8.6 beats per second per a sound recording done by tanner in 1940's. The video, when checked with extreme caution and accuracy, was able to figure the speed to be 8.7 beats per second. This "fast" flap is 100% match.

[hunt458]

@reptileexperts In the Fitzpatrick video I hear distinct knocking and then muffled knocking that is interpreted as wings flapping. Many years ago they were quite common where we live. Most often they were flying low and slow through the timber. It was a spectacular sight to see one. They would shred dead trees by ripping large sections of bark and wood. The slow flying of the ivory bill makes it a tempting target for young hunters and I'm sure that contributed to their demise.

[reptileexperts]

@hunt458 One of the main contributions is the fact they were easy targets during over logging of their habitat and with lack of protection status they were able to be over exploited. But habbitat loss in general gave them their fate sealed in gold. One point to note you say you'd see them flying low, however tanner made multiple observations regarding their flight. Ironically one was flight patterns varied too much to be a true ID mark. The other was they always flew high at the tree tops. Cheer

[hunt458]

@reptileexperts Observations are relative to the observer. Where I live the timber is old growth hardwood and was never harvested. You can walk for miles and never get a good look at the sun. The thick canopy of the towering oaks with trunks more than 4 feet in diameter is so dense that flying high is not an option for larger birds. The dead trunks they frequented were much shorter. If one were to be photographed then my presence in these woods would probably be made extinct.

[emraldYE]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOV­VVVVVEEEEEEE ivory bills! I have a wild republic plush ivory bill with sound. Its my dream to video tape them and photograph them and PROVE to scientists they live. Thats one of my big secrets.

[LionGoddess1]

they'll probably ignorantly put it in a zoo

[ratedEG]

I swear I saw a couple of these in the woods one day, when I grabbed my binoculars they were gone.

[bucktheusa]

It's easy. Just start and the beginning of the video taken by the researcher and tag every distinctive tree or snag until you reach the place where the bird took flight.

Then using the data of foraging range and nesting preference and height, case the area with four teams from each side.

I could solve this in a day and collect my $10K.

I'm just worried some redneck spray painted on a poor pileated and threw him out from behind a tree to drive up local tourism.

[gobalgrind]

there still alive shot one by accident while wood duck hunting,would never shot it if i would have known.

[1yoyo1010]

@gobalgrind sorry about posting to a six month old comment but, you killed what could be the last of a species, in other words you are responsible for the extinction of a species, if you are correct that you shot one. If i where you i would have lots of guilt.

[TheEggman51]

Why don't you just leave the bird in peace. Why must you need to "pin-point the bird's location" -- so that a crowd can go stare and gawk at it while it tries to breed and simply survive, or so some lunatic can go out and shoot it??? It is great that habitat is being reserved (places where people have no business anyway). It is because of all this focus that has and will push it over the edge to extinction.

[crazylazy45]

amen i totally agree with you i hope they never find it

[forzacatainapalermo]

agreed...personally i just dont understand y so much money was spent on searching for a ghost bird wen so many other animal projects need more funding in order to prevent extinction...

[1yoyo1010]

@forzacatainapalermo because if it was alive, then capturing it is very important to its survival.

[reptileexperts]

@forzacatainapalermo conservation efforts for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, not only support the IBWO, but also other species in its native habitat. The Louisiana Black Bear, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, and many others (a total of 7 endangered species) share the habitat that is eagerly being preserved in Big Woods Arkansas. This effort is not just an attempt to save a last of its species, but to save a habitat type to prevent the extinction of many others. Not to mention the habitat itself

[drudger6666]

here we are years later and thousands of man hours by "professional" ornithologist and still no proof. How embarrassing.

[Seabass16534]

looks like a terrordactyl to me

[stormingee]

There is to much white on the wings trailing edge to be a pileated woodpecker.

[abridgedmaster]

that video could just be a pileated woodpecker

[lowg4]

i've seen it here in houston

[naabnco]

are you sure it wasn't a pileated?

[gwgangstera]

i agree the bird could be a pileated because they are very very alike. not likely to be in houston

[Barfsoup]

It would be so cool to discover a bird that was once thought to be extinct! What a rush that would be!