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Ghost Bird

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2010

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a creature thought to be extinct is spotted alive in the swamps of Arkansas? Can such a creature have survived? Can scientists verify the story? And when a town’s hopes and a school’s grant money are on the line, to what lengths will people go to find proof? This week on MonsterTalk we discuss these issues with Scott Crocker, the documentary filmmaker behind Ghost Bird — a feature length exploration into the mystery of the Ivory-billed woodpecker. READ full episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In 1930. In 1938, only about 20 ivory-bill woodpeckers were known to survive in the wild.

1:10.0

They lived on a patch of Louisiana forest called the Singer Tract, which was to be logged by the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company.

1:17.0

Politicians and conservationists tried to save the habitat, but the loggers came and they clear cut the land.

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By 1944, the last bird was gone.

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The Ivory Bill Woodpecker was a huge bird nearly two feet tall

1:34.9

with a wingspan close to a yard wide. It was a stunning thing to see. In 1967, the bird was

1:41.6

listed as an endangered species, but no bird had been seen for years.

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