Ghost Bird

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Set in a murky swamp overrun with birders, scientists, and reporters, Ghost Bird explores the limits of certainty, the seductive power of hope, and how one phantom woodpecker changed a sleepy Southern town forever.

Ghost Bird Review

When we think of America and its association with a bird, we usually imagine the great bald eagle. The second bird might be the Ivory-billed Woodpecker....alas this wonderful animal - the king of woodpeckers - may be no more.

In 2004, a video circulated around - taken in Brinkley, Arkansas - that suggested an Ivory Billed Woodpecker was seen flying about in the woods...If so, that would be an event of world wide significance due to the fact that confirmed sightings disappeared nearly 70 years before. (Imagine the reappearance of a passenger pigeon - an extinct bird - and that gives you the idea).

This is a lovely documentary about the importance of this event, not only for the economy of this part of Arkansas, but for the existence of the wild. The theme of the movie is that humans are destroying bird habitats so quickly that extinctions of over a 100 species of birds has taken place in the last century. So it is great news that an environmentally positive event is also good for the local economy too. This woodpecker apparently was living in a stretch of woods owned by the Singer Sewing Machine Company. When they sold the land to a forestry concern, the trees were leveled and the birds....well they disappeared.

The movie starts with the observations of "birders" who believe they have seen the rare woodpecker and knew that something special is going on...to the positive reaction by the U.S. Dept of Interior, to the everyday lives of the persons in that section of Arkansas, to a green message that we need to save the birds...NOW. But the movie also includes the observations of some skeptics that challenge the video and believe it is a photograph of a pileated woodpecker - not the great Ivory-billed woodpecker.

A sobering thought is the discussion by the curator of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, an institution which has the largest collection of (stuffed) Ivory-billed Woodpeckers - brought to the museum at the turn of the last century. The ornithologist goes through the history of magnificent birds that have been led to extinction by thoughtless slaughtering of animals and even more thoughless destruction of necessary habitat.

My favorite part of the movie was the short black and white films (taken many years ago) of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker when there were so few left. My word, how beautiful...but haunting. One hold's one breath imagining that these might be the last "moving pictures" humanity will ever see of this great bird

Those interested in this newsworthy event can read some recent books about the woodpecker such as "The Grail Bird" by Tim Gallagher or "The Race to Save the Lord God Bird" by Phillip Hoose. The possibility that this bird may still be alive is a ray of hope in the world of ornithology...and the world of man.

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