Video footage of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

This dataset contains raw video footage of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers that was obtained in Louisiana in 2006 and 2008 and in Florida in 2007. There are interlaced versions in the original codec directly from the digital video tape and progressive versions that were de-interlaced. In order to download individual files, click on \"Mar 09, 2020 version files\" to get an expanded list. The files in this dataset are as follows:
Raw digital video files (interlaced):

2006i.dv 
2008i.dv 
2007-1i.mov 
2007-2i.mov 
2007-3i.mov 
2007-4i.mov 
2007-5i.mov
video-metadata.txt

Deinterlaced versions:

2006p.mp4
2008p.mp4 
2007-1p.mp4 
2007-2p.mp4 
2007-3p.mp4 
2007-4p.mp4 
2007-5p.mp4 

Isolated events:

event2007-1.mp4: downward swooping takeoff in 2007-1i.mov (plays at half speed)
event2007-2.mp4: upward swooping landing in 2007-2i.mov (plays at full speed)
event2007-3.mp4: horizontal takeoff in 2007-2i.mov (plays at half speed)
event2007-4.mp4: takeoff with rapid wingbeats in 2007-2i.mov (plays at full..., Video footage was obtained during three encounters with birds that were identified in the field as Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. Several events that appear in the videos have been analyzed and published. The videos are provided here in raw digital form (interlaced). Deinterlaced versions and cropped versions that isolate some of the events are also provided. The first video was obtained in the Pearl River swamp in Louisiana on February 20, 2006, following the fifth sighting in the area that week. The 2006 video shows a perched woodpecker that appears to be larger than a Pileated Woodpecker and has characteristics and behaviors that are not consistent with that species. On March 29, 2008, another video was obtained from 23 meters up an observation tree that is located a short distance up the same bayou. The 2008 video shows a large woodpecker in flight (it passed nearly directly below the observation tree) that has fieldmarks consistent with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and a flight speed and..., ,