From 2005: In search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

[@Zhukov-3]

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!

[@jamesbentonticer4706]

That's awesome! Do you remember the year you last saw one???

[@Zhukov-3]

@@jamesbentonticer4706 The early 80’s

[@johnhughes3963]

That's 1880s:)

[@xxxXXXCH04XXXxxx]

@@johnhughes3963 hehehe 😆

[@MrsCaranAmy]

The ivory billed woodpecker is one gorgeous bird. Thank you for sharing.

[@margaretpeabody243]

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.

[@magicalhealerclairvoyant521]

One lived in my yard full of old growth trees in Massachusetts.

[@Glassandcandy]

Saw a Pileated Woodpecker and a Bald Eagle yesterday while out hiking. Good day.

[@margaretpeabody243]

@@Glassandcandy excited for you.

[@marielalewis1590]

Where abouts

[@margaretpeabody243]

@@marielalewis1590 Westwood nature center in St Louis Park Minnesota up at the information and class area bird feeding center.

[@lindawild6568]

Beautiful bird!

[@a.d.jenkins5835]

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.

[@rridderbusch518]

@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.

[@andersonshumate]

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.

[@kathrynlambert4973]

Yeah, he’s being kind of disrespectful throughout the video...

[@ceooflonelinessinc.267]

Yes. Disrespectful.

[@benniebarrow348]

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.

[@oneeyedman99]

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".

[@milesgreb3537]

this guy was kinda rude to the locals.

[@jennifershaw5232]

I’m from Arkansas and my church member was one of the guys who first spotted it.

[@charlieewing6880]

Gene Sparling?

[@xxxXXXCH04XXXxxx]

where is birb? :(

[@nathanwebb4836]

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.

[@aardeng]

I thought I saw one in northwest arkansas several years ago. I know most likely not but it's still a fun thought

[@sawatisbillings8759]

Such a beautiful bird! I've seen Pileated around our yard, and they had a nest just down our road in Akwesasne NY

[@perfectbreakfast]

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

[@banetrstenik85]

Let's hope for the best and amazing news soon 🍀Greetings and best wishes from Serbia

[@jamesbentonticer4706]

I think its still out there.

[@Austin8thGenTexan]

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... 🙀🙀🙀

[@az0970449]

have seen a pile of pileated of them in maine beautiful bird

[@sonofatiger]

Ivory-billed Woodpecker is extinct now 10 , 3 , 2021

[@Lonerd]

The news featured was from the Philippine news. :)

[@Brandon-jc7cf]

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 !!!

[@jackscott5465]

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.

[@nightengale7163]

Excellent episode..... LOL 😀👍

[@pixelkitty2583]

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.

[@daveblevins3322]

Well, there's a lot of pileated woodpeckers here in Kentucky. 👍

[@Loveroffood41]

Honestly this bird I think would be awesome to see in a movie called The Big Year.

[@vancemccutchen1434]

Start looking around Toledo Bend and lake Caddo.

[@timmywood9677]

With modern technology I’m surprised no one has tried setting up 500 to 1000 trail cameras. I believe if someone did that and left them out in prime habitat. If it was out there you would find out. Leave the camera out for two three months

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

How is it that there are so many Pileated Woodpeckers but no Ivory Billed left .

[@Ethan-uo4fr]

They might seem similar but they have very different ecology and habitat needs. Plus ivory billed woodpeckers were more desired by collectors

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

@Robert interesting, thank you 👍👌

[@Caoimhinmanglitz12]

dude I just saw one outside the massive thing it was before it flew

[@dogtoddy]

You saw a Pileated Woodpecker.

[@oneeyedman99]

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.

[@DanielHHurt]

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker -- If you've seen one you've seen them all. Daniel

[@jermed2001]

Steve was sassy back then!

[@tonysargent3852]

Pathetic reporting. Treated the story like a big joke instead of explaining more of the IBW history.

[@dogtoddy]

This was 19 years ago and still not a single half-decent photo.

[@xxxxxxch04xxxxxx22]

That bird is like UFOs

[@thomasnaylor2162]

I think, I might have one in my backyard, the other day. AR., but not sure!, I have no picture, or proof.

[@dogtoddy]

You saw a Pileated Woodpecker.

[@paulhubbard1747]

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

[@dogtoddy]

You saw a Pileated Woodpecker

[@agneslaufer9579]

I remember watching it in Poland, I remember that.

[@jimboslice9472]

how ignurt

[@myannie42]

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!

[@derpydogz0259]

Just declared extinct 😭 maybe we can rediscover them

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