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I have the last one with all my multiple species of avian in surrounding trees ... My falcon HATES the sound it makes ... Not the pecking sound... It is male. Was the mentioned bird a female please?

I gotta find this bird!

Just the comment about birds like blue jays and possibly mocking birds mimicking the call of a IBW in the ongoing search is a very intriguing argument to it's continued secret existence. Because, of course, they can't mimic something that doesn't exist right? Viva la ghost bird. I do hope we can one day finally have a photograph ^_^

Just send a local hunter go out and promise him his very own tv show if he finds one..??

I believe, if ‘man’ went extinct, the world would thrive& Mother Earth would stabilize. 🤞🏻

I havent seen it. Ill be honest

How big is the areas where they could still be alive in? Even if the forest is hard to go thru, i would say it has to be quite big for the woodpecker do hide from humans. Based on the photos and video you showed i cant really think it is extinct, but at the same time, if thousands of people been in these areas for decades, i dont think it would be that hard to find. In sweden, most woodpecker make a sound and you can heard it a few hundred yards away. Also the picking..., if the ivory billed woodpecker were somewhat close, you would hear it pcking on the trees. And what about inbreeding? I would also say that if its alive, we cant think of it like " what is the chance of seeing one?", instead, the question would be " what is the chance of seeing 5". I mean, we are not looking for only 1 ivory billed woodpecker here, there has to be like 3 to 6 different ones in the same area for them to be able to breed. If there only were 2 left, 1 male, and one female, when they get their chicks out and they also fly around, all of a sudden you have 5 woodpeckers in the same area.

Apparently there is a population in Cuba that still exists . I still think there is a small population in continental America

Ivory billed woodpeckers are not rediscovered its for one was found in 2004

Being in the right place at the right time in territory like that would be very slim odds. I still believe that there are some out there. I know I'll never see one, but it's nice to think that they are not 100% gone. We can still dream.

Extinction is a theory, and the scientific method clearly states that no theory can be proven, only disproven. Scientist thus need to practice universal scepticism, unfortunate most people prefer dogmatism.

🤔 More like Lord Ninja Blurred God Bird.

You know, when I was younger I wanted to be a scientist, but I changed my mind when I realized that the vast majority of them are close-minded, dogmatic assholes. They refuse to even entertain possibilities of anything they can't hold in their hands.

I think I saw one today on the Tennessee -TomBigbee around Fulton Mississippi

I literally discover new birds all the time. It’s so easy just call them different names

Even if a few pairs survived the clear cut era, wouldn't this genetic bottleneck pose a problem? I'd love to think they weren't eliminated, but I can't see how the population can be simultaneously large enough to remain genetically viable and small enough to evade detection for decades, especially given the large range this bird requires.

Fantastic. Very interesting and very well presented. Thank you

I remember these 50+ years ago, as a child. They were in Boulder, Colorado!

Fascinating stuff. Great conflab - loved it. Would love to have the finances and time to hop across the pond and rigorously search for any signs - with my high telephoto hi-def gear! Great guys, sub'd. Si.

The Ivory Bill is wearing white pants and suspenders 😅

Great video, guys!!

love the fact how musicians are completely disregarded as humans too and people just steal their stuff without a care in the world like they're nothing. Says a lot about the abuser and society at large. Went to see who did the intro music and not a word on them. Seems like an interesting video, but I wont support a thief.

I've seen this bird in CNY ! I thought it was a dinosaur it was so huge and my kids didn't believe me until I took a picture ! It reminded me of a Roman solider with its red plum standing up tall on its head and fierce stripe on it's face and going down onto the back and white on the ends of the wings! It took chunks out of the tree! Just Amazing!!!

The reason these studies have come out recently, despite not having definitive proof, is most likely due to the Fish and Wildlife Service's proposal (emphasis on proposal) of the Ivory-Bills extinction, wanting anyone to give evidence of the continued existence of this bird. Studies are coming out as evidence, and they are now in the process of peer review to see if it is enough to suggest the continued existence of Ivory-Bills. The Fish and Wildlife Service only asked for evidence. It's not definitive, but it is evidence, nonetheless.

Saw one in the uk in Thetford. Forest in Suffolk, a male singing on top of a Scot’s pine tree , we have three other species, Scottish crossbill a sub species and the rarer Two barred crossbill and parrot crossbill

If you have enough time to identify a woodpecker with your binoculars and it hasn’t move then you have enough time to take your camera out and take a picture- also what’s the reason for lack of audio recordings.

This happens all the time in Eurasia- usually involving leaf warblers. Don't find it particularly cool or interesting- wondering to what extent vocalisations or genetics must be different for a split to be accepted, also wondering if there's any consistency. The plumages do look different- and if that is consistent amongst the new world and old world birds then I think its a good split.

I saw an Ivory bill in 1968 when I was 17 as I ditched school and went to the woods! !! This was in Lansing Illinois! It wasn't any bigger than any other woodpecker - maybe it was a young one, who knows!

Would Ivory-Billed ever hybridize with Pileated Woodpeckers? Hopefully somebody knowledgeable will respond.

I am from Tallulah. I had no knowledge of the story. Thank you for this video. I really hope we find these awesome birds are still living.

Awesome

I wish someone with something more powerful than an iPhone 3 camera could look for these woodpeckers. Cameras in the past decade have amazing 9 point autofocus, eye tracking, wildlife mode, 40 megapixels for cropping purposes, 4K video etc. Maybe an accomplished bird photographer could be hired via a crowd sourcing go fund me.

Hi, guys! Thanks for this very timely video. It's especially interesting to me having seen a lot of RECR in both Barry and Lake counties this month. I wonder if your theories mean we should also be looking for Bohemian waxwings and pine grosbeaks in these areas right now, too.

Any evidence to the contrary is worth looking into, and this is quite a bit of evidence to the contrary

This was some good bringing together of evidence. But I'm not like Caleb who keeps on saying "the bird is most likely extinct" ... no, I'd say based on this evidence plus the many credible sightings the last 12 years, along with the work of Matt Courtman, Mike Collins, Bobby Harrison, & others, I would say there are most likely some Ivorybills still around.

Awesome topic and great video! Very well done. I used to do a lot of birdwatching as a kid and the story of the Ivory-billed was my favorite study. Recently I have been looking into their story again and enjoy any new information. Thanks for this video! I'd love to learn more about the Imperial Woodpecker if you were looking for a new video idea. I know the basics, but wish I could hear more about expeditions to find them etc. Cheers

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The image from October 1, 2021, is most certainly not a Pileated WP, nor a Red Headed WP. If I saw that, I would be quite certain I just saw an Ivory Billed Woodpecker! I see Pileated WP's very regularly, and I can say with certainty they don't look like the Oct. 1 image. Very impressive. I would tend to think they are making a come-back, especially since their habitat is rebounding now. Wishful thinking? Perhaps, but also a good bit of logic involved given the amount of evidence, and extenuating circumstances.

UPDATE: RUclips forced us to clip out the last segment from the Umbrella Academy but in the clip, we hear the audio for a Red-bellied Woodpecker but the birder calls it a Red-bellied Sapsucker, and then she points out a Kirtland's Warbler. Sorry for the inconvenience!

I have hard time believing they are entiterly extinct. There is too much remote hard to reach places in these bottomland swamp habitats to say we have explored all parts of these swamps. The atchafalaya river is the largest bottomland hardwood river floodplain tract in the united states, why do more people not explore the atchafalaya. I know ivorybilled also need virgin old growth but there has to be some virgin old growth cypress tupelo swamp forest in the atchafalyawhere these birds are hanging out. The atchafalya is expansive and just wild

I live in south mississippi about a mile from the pearl river near stennis. I crossthe pearl river everyday to go to work in slidell and i am on the side that believes they are still around. There is too mu c h land, swamp that is remote and hard to access. I always hope to see ivorybilled flying over the swamp. They jave panthers and black bears in honey island swamp and i believe there are still ivorybilleds. I have seen swallow tailed kites flying around my property. I live very cl9se to the pearl river bottomlands

stop using the Bigfoot cameras to film. Seriously we ALL have 4k cameras in our pockets...why are these videos SOOOOOO bad ?

You heard it here from us first folks. The dodo was sexy.

I’ve for sure seen it in SE TEXAS in the late 90’s thru out early 2000 it would come to the same tree in our yard every single morning and it wasn’t a Redhead either IM 1000% sure it was this Beautiful Bird I saw it countless amounts of times

The poorer the "evidence" the greater the focus and high tech analyses on same. Irrefutable evidence as presented for similar status species worldwide does not require all this analyses and discussion. It stands on its own. Here's a clear and distinct photo! Period.

so cool

The ivory-billed woodpecker has always fascinated me. I really appreciate this in-depth video of the ivory-bill history and the breakdown of the new evidence.

“Peregrines have bad breath” - now that’s not a bird fact I’d probably ever come across on any birding info source other than you guys. I learn something new about birds all the time! 😃 Gotta love it!

It's very possible that they are still alive

I heard and saw one in the summer of 2018.