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  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Matson Films
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Matson Films
  • 1 h 25 m
Ghost Bird

Summary The ivory-billed woodpecker has long been considered the Holy Grail by diehard birders who refused to believe it went extinct over sixty years ago. When scientists announced that the bird had been found in the swamps of Eastern Arkansas, the nation’s 70 million birders celebrated the woodpecker’s second coming. As did the citizens of nea...

Directed By: Scott Crocker

Written By: Scott Crocker

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Matson Films
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • Matson Films
  • 1 h 25 m

Ghost Bird

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Summary The ivory-billed woodpecker has long been considered the Holy Grail by diehard birders who refused to believe it went extinct over sixty years ago. When scientists announced that the bird had been found in the swamps of Eastern Arkansas, the nation’s 70 million birders celebrated the woodpecker’s second coming. As did the citizens of nea...

Directed By: Scott Crocker

Written By: Scott Crocker

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Katie Jacques

Self - General Manager, The Brinkley Argus

Sandra Kemmer

Self - Executive Director, Brinkley Chamber of Commerce

Billy Clay

Self - Mayor of Brinkley

Ronnie Steinbeck

Self - Hunting & Birding Guide

Paul Swenby

Self - Colorado Birders

Rose Swenby

Self - Colorado Birders

Gene DePriest

Self - Gene's Bar-B-Que

Penny Childs

Self - Penny's Family Hair Care

Eugene Dover

Self - Rice Farmer

David Luneau

Self - Associate Professor, University of Arkansas Little Rock

John Fitzpatrick

Self - Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Mike Mills

Self - Arkansas River Guide

Nancy Tanner

Self - Wife of Ornithologist Jim Tanner

David Allen Sibley

Self - Bird Guide Author & Illustrator

Jerome Jackson

Self - World's Foremost Ivory-Bill Biologist

Richard Prum

Self - Curator of Ornithology, Yale

Gene Sparling

Self

Tom Nelson

Self - Blogger, 'the ivory-bill skeptic'

Scott Edwards

Self - Curator of Ornithology, Harvard

Thomas Jacques

Self - Managing Editor of The Brinkley Argus

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Generally speaking, bird-watching is a pastime that is extremely interesting to a few people and not at all interesting to anyone else. But Scott Crocker has turned a bird-watching tale into a multilayered story that will fascinate practically everybody in Ghost Bird, a witty, wistful documentary.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
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It's the sort of film that builds up familiar frenzy--newspaper notoriety, tourism uptick, government attention--only to dissolve in a what-just-happened daze.
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The overarching lesson is twofold: environmental issues are never as simple or as cut-and-dried as we would like, and the first order of business is to get the science right.
By John P. McCarthy FULL REVIEW
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Ghost Bird has a bad habit of briefly taking flight and then crashing back down into NPR-like stodginess.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Small Change Productions Inc.
Release Date Apr 28, 2010
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Got pecker?
Website http://www.ghostbirdmovie.com/
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