Woodpecker is a 2008 comedy film directed by Alex Karpovsky and starring Jon Hyrns.^[1] The film follows Hyrns and his cohort, Wesley Yang, as they obsessively search the Arkansas bayou for proof that ivory-billed woodpecker is in fact not extinct.

Woodpecker is filmed in a docufiction style,^[2] set in the small Arkansas town of Brinkley. It incorporates faux-interviews^[3] with Brinkley residents recounting their experiences with the mysterious bird.

Hyrns becomes increasingly erratic and comic in his attempts to locate the animal.

The film’s soundtrack received positive reviews.^[4] The score, composed by James Lavino, was performed by Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood and Lee and Tyler Sargent of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.^[5]