Has This Trail Cam Captured Footage Of An Extinct Woodpecker? | Extinct Or Alive?

Put the decoy back at the same spot where it was supposedly attacked, and mount all of the other trail cams pointing at the decoy from different perspectives and at different distances.

I have lived in Michigan my whole life. I never saw a pileated woodpecker until the ash borer killed all of our ash trees off. Now they are pretty common even in residential neighborhoods. But when I saw that first pileated woodpecker I thought it looked so strange, almost prehistoric. I can see why people get confused.

I met a 90 yr old women in Arkansas (she still golfed) that has a ton of land and said she had a pair on her property but wouldn’t tell the researchers that came around asking because she was afraid for them.

I'm a birdwatcher, and the blackbirds he saw are Boat Tailed Grackles. One of my favorites. Common, but beautiful. The males look black, but they shine crazy iridescent colors in the sun. Purple, green, blue, they've got it all. Sorry, I just like birds.

Everyone is saying they see these birds all the time. I think you people are a bit confused and your seeing pileated woodpeckers,which look similar to ivory bills.

What people don’t get about trap cams is that you should always have two pointing at each other.

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They are in the Atchafalaya and Pearl River swamps. We've been hunting these areas for decades and know the difference between the Pileated and Ivory Billed along with the distinctive Kent call of the Ivory Bill. They are here, clinging on.

I want this bird to come back so bad. I became fascinated when it made the news in 2004 from the Arkansas expedition that they have video of the IBWP. It was later determined that it couldn't be 100% identified from the short video and I became sad.

Well this is encouraging that the bird is still around and maybe more of them than we thought. Just probably extremely difficult to track. As an avid birder for 15'ish years and amateur bird photographer. This is one of those grail birds everyone dreams about seeing.

Not to forget the Imperial Woodpecker too, which was very similar to the Ivory Bill but even larger and almost certainly extinct sadly.

"the white lining the bottom of the wing effectively rules out the pileated woodpecker" 6:10. Both the pileated and the ivory billed have white on the bottom of the wing. The white is located differently in each. The underside of the wing shown at 6:11 doesn't look like black and white to me. What it looks like is black and glossy black due to the way that the light is hitting the feathers. Even if this was actually black and white it would not be the pattern of black and white on either the pileated or the ivory billed.

Forest's excitement for this little corner of biology grabbed my interest almost immediately

Keep searching! I live in the suburbs where there are no forests for dozens of miles. One morning, my husband and I were sitting on our deck when 2 pileated woodpeckers landed in our backyard, performing mating rituals - flying over each other repeatedly as if playing hopscotch - then flew away together! An Ivory-billed could still be deep in a forest somewhere!

In the 80's I was hunting in the Ocala National forest. Two huge woodpeckers that looked like woody woodpecker were flying from tree to tree. They were huge and were so loud it was unreal. They had a sound like on this recording he is playing. The honking sound so loud is echoed and even loader than a Turkey. When they pecked the tree's bark would fly off and the pecking sound was really load also. They where constantly moving and you could hear the beat of their big wings. I told my wife than I may have seen a woodpecker that they thought was extinct.

The largest woodpecker in North America is the imperial woodpecker of Mexico. Ivory billed is the 2nd largest. Both are thought to be extinct but there are also sightings of both into modern times. I think there are still a few around. There are also suppose to be IBW in Cuba.

I had NO idea until I saw a piliated woodpecker outside my window that they (woodpeckers) could be so large! A truly beautiful bird

It's really exciting to me to think that Ivory Billed Woodpeckers may still be in existence! I hope that you at AP won't give up searching for proof that they are still around and share your results with us. 😊✌👍

I swear on my life I’ve seen a woodpecker that big growing up here in Ontario Canada, it May have been a pileated woodpecker after seeing this/reading comments. I’ll need to do some research on how big they can get, but I remember being about 10 years old (16 years ago) riding my four wheeler through the woods behind my house and seeing this GIANT woodpecker with a red mohawk/tuff on top of its head. Anytime I have told people about what I saw they all told me it must have been a pileated woodpecker, but this thing was minimum a foot and a half tall I remember stopping and turning my four wheeler off just watching the bird in disbelief!

I don't see how this bird can still be alive. A determined ornithologist got perfect reel in the 1930s so if thousands of scientists can't get a clear photo of one today we can be confident it is extinct. Same goes for the Imperial Woodpecker and the Cuban Imperial Woodpecker, all gone, however sad and angry that makes us.