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Related: About this forumGhost Bird, a movie about the search for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in 2005
I watched this today. Pretty interesting and entertaining.
Trailer
In 2005, scientists announced that the Ivory-billed woodpecker, a species thought to be extinct for 60 years, had been found in the swamps of Eastern Arkansas. Other creatures have wrongly been presumed extinct, but the reappearance of the Ivory-bill was celebrated around the world as the rediscovery of a lifetime, prompting the largest recovery effort ever undertaken for a lost species. Millions of dollars poured in from the government while ornithologists and birders flooded the swamps to find the rare bird. Down the road, the town of Brinkley, Arkansas - itself on the brink of extinction was transformed by the hope, commerce and controversy surrounding their feathered friend. But continued sightings by expert birders only highlighted the mysterious absence of credible evidence. Now six years later, the woodpecker remains as elusive as ever. Ghost Bird brings the Ivory-billʼs blurry rediscovery into focus revealing our uneasy relationship with nature and the increasing uncertainty of our place within it.
One of the wildlife photographers, Tim Barksdale
http://ghostbirdmovie.com/preview/barksdale.html
You can watch if for $4 on youtube
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Ghost Bird, a movie about the search for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in 2005 (Original Post)
Beringia
Aug 2019
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2naSalit
(86,608 posts)1. Thanks! I'll have to watch that!
Reminds me of this cartoon that still has relevance for so many other species and special places...
https://www.gocomics.com/tomtoles/2005/05/03
Beringia
(4,316 posts)5. OMG, that is perfect and exactly on the money same as this movie
John1956PA
(2,654 posts)2. I recall the debate regarding the analysis of a brief sound recording purportedly of the bird. n/t
LuvLoogie
(7,003 posts)3. The Ivory Billed is gone, as is the Imperial Woodpecker
Such magnificent creatures so recently departed forever.
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)4. Pileated woodpecker is close cousin, have seen in Florida. Stunning.