The gentleman in the tourist office was my dad, Buddy Hodge. I remember seeing these extinct birds while we were duck hunting in the white river bottoms. I didn't know this video was out there!
@jamesbentonticer47063 жыл бұрын
That's awesome! Do you remember the year you last saw one???
@Zhukov-33 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbentonticer4706 The early 80’s
@johnhughes39632 жыл бұрын
That's 1880s:)
@xxxXXXCH04XXXxxx2 ай бұрын
@@johnhughes3963 hehehe 😆
@MrsCaranAmy3 жыл бұрын
The ivory billed woodpecker is one gorgeous bird. Thank you for sharing.
@margaretpeabody2433 жыл бұрын
I saw my first Pileated Woodpecker, the Ivory Bill's cousin. The size of a chicken, I saw it mid-December and decided it was my holiday present.
@magicalhealerclairvoyant5213 жыл бұрын
One lived in my yard full of old growth trees in Massachusetts.
@Glassandcandy3 жыл бұрын
Saw a Pileated Woodpecker and a Bald Eagle yesterday while out hiking. Good day.
@margaretpeabody2433 жыл бұрын
@@Glassandcandy excited for you.
@marielalewis15902 жыл бұрын
Where abouts
@margaretpeabody2432 жыл бұрын
@@marielalewis1590 Westwood nature center in St Louis Park Minnesota up at the information and class area bird feeding center.
@lindawild65683 жыл бұрын
Beautiful bird!
@andersonshumate3 жыл бұрын
Pretty cringeworthy when the host started quizzing the visitor center on whether they remembered the few tourists that came by. A small town isn't going to have a lot of tourists, no need to make them feel bad about it.
@kathrynlambert49733 жыл бұрын
Yeah, he’s being kind of disrespectful throughout the video...
@ceooflonelinessinc.2673 жыл бұрын
Yes. Disrespectful.
@benniebarrow3483 жыл бұрын
Typical scenario.....big city leftist journalists goes down south to make fun of the hay seed hicks. White southerners are the last bastion of people you can make fun of without the PC whiners coming after you.
@oneeyedman993 жыл бұрын
The opening segment was kind of mean-spirited, but most of the time they were kind of making fun of each other, like when the tour guide told him "only an idiot goes out birding this time of year".
@a.d.jenkins58353 жыл бұрын
I believe it was not an ivory billed. More likely a pileated. Its not like a jurassic park down there or land of the lost. As a birder i want to believe but after the filming of that bird in 2005 its not been seen since.
@rridderbusch5183 жыл бұрын
@A. D. Jenkins Birder here, too. If one is ever spotted again (though I doubt it,) I hope they have the brains to keep it secret.
@jennifershaw5232 Жыл бұрын
I’m from Arkansas and my church member was one of the guys who first spotted it.
@charlieewing6880 Жыл бұрын
Gene Sparling?
@xxxXXXCH04XXXxxx2 ай бұрын
where is birb? :(
@nathanwebb48362 жыл бұрын
I heard and saw an ivory-billed woodpecker in the summer of 2018. It was in a woodlot next to a lake at Johnny Henderson Park which is north of Enterprise, Alabama.
@sawatisbillings87592 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful bird! I've seen Pileated around our yard, and they had a nest just down our road in Akwesasne NY
@aardeng3 жыл бұрын
I thought I saw one in northwest arkansas several years ago. I know most likely not but it's still a fun thought
@Austin8thGenTexan3 жыл бұрын
I love Steve Hartman - especially the stories he's done about his father! But I am not sure how a bird can be "notorious" - unless it ate a human being or something... 🙀🙀🙀
@jamesbentonticer47063 жыл бұрын
I think its still out there.
@nightengale71633 жыл бұрын
Excellent episode..... LOL 😀👍
@perfectbreakfast2 жыл бұрын
I don't like the way the reporter is talking about this little town. It's obvious that the people there are really proud of it
@banetrstenik852 жыл бұрын
Let's hope for the best and amazing news soon 🍀Greetings and best wishes from Serbia
@sonofatiger2 жыл бұрын
Ivory-billed Woodpecker is extinct now 10 , 3 , 2021
@az09704493 жыл бұрын
have seen a pile of pileated of them in maine beautiful bird
@milesgreb35372 жыл бұрын
this guy was kinda rude to the locals.
@vancemccutchen143413 күн бұрын
Start looking around Toledo Bend and lake Caddo.
@Brandon-jc7cf2 жыл бұрын
When I was about 7 I saw this exact bird I was bebe 🎯 target practice with my Dad I herd a call never herd before and it came landed on the branch I was practicing on it called out started pecking hard big peace’s of wood came flying out !!! Then it looked at us I seen the red so distinct it was huge !!! Then flew off behind the tree I was target practicing on. It was 1996 ish I’ll never forget !!!
@Caoimhinmanglitz122 жыл бұрын
dude I just saw one outside the massive thing it was before it flew
@dogtoddy7 ай бұрын
You saw a Pileated Woodpecker.
@daveblevins33223 жыл бұрын
Well, there's a lot of pileated woodpeckers here in Kentucky. 👍
@thomasnaylor21622 жыл бұрын
I think, I might have one in my backyard, the other day. AR., but not sure!, I have no picture, or proof.
@dogtoddy7 ай бұрын
You saw a Pileated Woodpecker.
@jackscott54652 жыл бұрын
If this is the case I am absolutely sure now I and Johnny Paul saw a large one pecking on an ancient pecan tree in Wister OK. several years ago while eating lunch in the doorway of his dad's cabinet shop.
@Lonerd3 жыл бұрын
The news featured was from the Philippine news. :)
@Loveroffood412 жыл бұрын
Honestly this bird I think would be awesome to see in a movie called The Big Year.
@jermed20013 жыл бұрын
Steve was sassy back then!
@pixelkitty25833 жыл бұрын
Hide, little woodpecker! Fly to the deepest thickets! Once these people find you, they will never leave you be. They will make your life a miserable, hellish shell of an existence.
@cheaplaughkennedy23183 жыл бұрын
How is it that there are so many Pileated Woodpeckers but no Ivory Billed left .
@Ethan-uo4fr2 жыл бұрын
They might seem similar but they have very different ecology and habitat needs. Plus ivory billed woodpeckers were more desired by collectors
@cheaplaughkennedy23182 жыл бұрын
@Robert interesting, thank you 👍👌
@DanielHHurt Жыл бұрын
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- If you've seen one you've seen them all. Daniel
@oneeyedman993 жыл бұрын
It's common for a functionally extinct species to still be occasionally sighted for decades after there is no hope. I could believe that really was an IBW that they saw in 2005, but with so few of them out there it probably never found a mate; by now there really wouldn't be any.
@dogtoddy7 ай бұрын
This was 19 years ago and still not a single half-decent photo.
@xxxxxxch04xxxxxx222 ай бұрын
That bird is like UFOs
@tonysargent3852 Жыл бұрын
Pathetic reporting. Treated the story like a big joke instead of explaining more of the IBW history.
@paulhubbard17472 жыл бұрын
I've seen two in one day,I was maybe in my low teens back in the 90s and my father said it must've been the same one.he did say something about it being rare but just shook it off and walked away. I literally lived the next 20+ years, up until 3 mins ago when I heard it was just officially labeled extinct, believing they were more common than not.thought I seen another maybe 6 or 7 years ago again here in Gloucester mass but I didn't get a good eye on it.but told people I saw one anyway.this is crazy. I can't belive its extinct.unreal. I don't believe they aren't out there somewhere
@dogtoddy7 ай бұрын
You saw a Pileated Woodpecker
@jimboslice94723 жыл бұрын
how ignurt
@myannie42 Жыл бұрын
I think it's sad that you guys have to make this entire video a joke as if the whole idea of finding this beautiful and super rare bird is pretty much a farce! Some people really do love GOD'S creation and actually respect it! Too bad you guys are obviously not in that group!
@agneslaufer95793 жыл бұрын
I remember watching it in Poland, I remember that.
@derpydogz02592 жыл бұрын
Just declared extinct 😭 maybe we can rediscover them
@charleneaguirre67393 жыл бұрын
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