Footage of the Kauai Ō'Ō bird 

This footage is from 1985 while the audio was recorded 2 years later in 1987. Despite extensive measures and surveys, we have yet to even find a single trace of it's kind, although it's possible that the specias may have been breeding hidden, because it was proclaimed extinct two times before as well before being rediscovered but... it's very unlikely that it's still alive.

It sad this bird who was good at singing didn’t know that no one was listening and died and he is the only one alive.

The really sad thing is that the pauses in his song are where a female is supposed to join in. It's not just that the species is now gone, its that the last remaining members died alone.

Nani Kauai. She took me in in '88. I stayed on for 26 years. The bird song that filled Kokee (a mountainous, interior section) was heartbreakingly beautiful. But the landscape was so dense, one could never actually see the tiny, fantastically colored birds. One afternoon, I lay down beside a trail and started to blow on my harmonica. A few minutes latter, I looked up and a dozen birds (males, I'd guess!) were ranged all around me- checking out the ''new bird'' come to their land! I felt quite honored. I've been back on the mainland for about 7 years, but most nights I return to Nani Kauai, in my dreams. Hopefully, someone will scatter my ashes at Polihale, after I'm gone.

It’s haunting to know that not only does this footage look a lot older than it is, but also the audio sounds like a lost spectre, waiting for his time to come. I’ve seen videos of extinct animals before, and none have given me the chills quite like this.

The audio of this video is the male mating song, the parts without singing are when the female is supposed to sing. But there are none, this bird is completely oblivious to the fact that it is the last of its kind, and when it dies, the species is gone.

I cried so hard. I wish this species wasn't extinct. Poor bird, not only was he alone, he sang for a female who would never come. In the end, he just gave up and flew off. Then the cameramen played the voice again and then the bird came back as it thought it was another bird calling back to him. He had the voice of an angel. Rest in peace, luv.

Despite the depressing nature of the call it’s actually a beautiful birdcall I don’t think I’ve ever heard a more beautiful bird call then this Edit: wow thanks for the likes everyone! God bless! Long live The Kauai ō’ō bird

The sad part is that this bird never got a response. What a beautiful song :(

POV:you did not search this up but randomly found it while scrolling through RU-vid, only to be haunted by its sound.

God, this makes me incredibly sad. I know I'm probably anthropomorphizing, but I swear I hear a sadness in his calls. I think he knew.

The manu O"O had little yellow feathers under it's wings. In ancient times, the bird catcher would put glue onto a branch and wait for an O'O to arrive. He would then pull out the yellow feathers for capes and hats made for just the ali'i or royalty. He would release the O'O to regrow its yellow feathers. You can view these capes and hats at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.

The audio is not extracted from the video shown, the audio is from the recording of the last mating call heard from the now extinct species of bird, believed to be sung from the last bird of the species. The video was extracted from a data archive. This is the only known footage of the bird.

This was the last kauai ō'ō bird in existence when this footage was recorded. All the other birds of his kind were extinct, and he was unaware that he was the only one left alive. He tried to call out for a female not knowing there were none left. The cameraman who recorded this played a soundtrack of a female kauai bird in an attempt to make the poor bird feel less alone. As of 2023 all of them are extinct. I feel so bad for that bird, calling out for another bird not knowing he's the only one left. There's also something eerie about the birdsong....

The saddess thing is that neither him nor us would ever have a response. Very, very haunting indeed .

"Au Hea Wale Ana Oe." Where are you? From a chant composed by Kumu Hula Rayleen Lancaster for the 100th anniversary of the overthrow. In 1993 it was seen by hundreds at the Calvin Simmons Auditorium in Oakland CA. The o'o bird is seriously mourned by Hawaiians the world over and a lot of other people as well. Extinction is forever.

i'm not crying i swear

It's is so sad to know that these beautiful birds are extinct...

There's something about knowing that this bird was the last of its species, singing its hauntingly beautiful song for a mate that never showed up that sends chills up my spine and brings tears to my eyes. There's no other bird call I've ever heard that I've adored as much as this one, and it comes from an extinct bird we'll probably never hear again.

If this video was recorded in 1985 and the audio in 1987, it's possible that they belong to the same lone male bird, potentially the last of his kind.

dude i gotta be honest, this has got to be some of the most disturbing footage ive ever seen. The bird trying to do a mating call. But no one called back. Because there is nobody left. He died alone.

Teach its song to a lyrebird. He may be gone, but another bird will sing his song again.

I lived in Hawaii when hurricane Iniki hit Kauai in 1992. At the time the local news said that hurricane probably is what killed the last one. What really killed them was mosquitoes adapting to higher cooler altitudes. Mosquitoes carrying diseases the native birds had no resistance to. Once the mosquitoes made it to the Alikai swamp at the summit of Kauai, there was no refuge left.

Something about this video is so eerie... The more deeper you get, the more it feels like psychological horror.

Whenever I hear this birds name, I am reminded of the noise and feelings of sadness, disappointment and weirdly something eerie cloud has always been around the topic simply due to the sound it makes and also being the only sound we have of the Kauai Ō’Ō birb

I hope that one day someone will hear and see this bird again but it will never happen 😭

How sad to hear his last song . RIP lovely bird.

They're only found in Hawaii. It's sad that they had to retreat to higher altitudes due to hurricanes, deforestation etc. But sadly there weren't many cavity trees on higher altitudes making it hard for these beautiful creatures to survive. I really hope there are a few. They're breathtakingly beautiful and they sing beautifully too. God bless everyone from Himalayas, India.

This video was just randomly recommended to me, and for some reason I clicked on it, and god damn, what a haunting and eerie video. To imagine being the last of my species, desperately searching for someone, anyone, and yet not truly knowing that I would eventually die all alone, and my entire species’ past, present, and future with me.

Being the last of your kind... Literally calling out into the void only to be met with silence... That is the type of existential nightmare that keeps me up at night... And this bird is living it... This poor bird had to go through a truly dreadful end. 😢

This bird's tale makes me cry even after seeing it so many times.

It's depressing to know that this individual is probably the last one of its type, and probably singing to find a mate, not knowing that the bloodline and all their history ends with him.

Let us all agree that youtube reccomended this to us randomly to make us cry

The loneliest bird in the universe

This bird has been spotted in Fiji. But hardly people know about it. There is a place called Navua where this bird exists but in a very tiny minute population. I have seen it while hiking and I recognize that sound. They are very very rare

saddest noise ive ever heard

This made me just cry its so sad that there is no female ones and the male one is the only last one i cant stop crying..

Such a beautiful song! What a shame the bird has gone extinct.

why is this the only footage of Kauai Ō’Ō bird? why would they only take one footage of a beautiful bird with amazing voice.

Imagine it's mating season, you call out for a mate. Little did you know you were the last of your kind.

“Do men even have feelings?” Me:

Rest in Peace little bird of bravery. God speed. May you be reunited with your love in this Universe, o'little bird of song. 🐦‍⬛

So very sad , what a wonderful sound!

I did not know that I could cry to bird songs and their stories. Its... so beautiful...

This shows how cruel humanity is. We cut down the trees so much that they lost their homes and became a target for predators. My hope for humanity is below he charts.

As a bird myself I can prove this to be a true recording of the rare bird species, or extinct bird species. the bird will be rememberd with respect, please do not under any circumstances disrespect the bird thats inmature (pls bird has feeling)

The sad thing is we can't do anything if only one member of living species left. Cant breed them, can't cross breed them as well. All we can do just to document everything for future generation. Just like this lone birb

Suddenly this gets recommended to me, and I'm glad it did.

Nyanyian kesedihan yang mendalam

Oh that's the most beautiful bird song I've ever heard. What a pity we lost it forever.

Your song of loneliness is etched into our hearts forever dear birdie.😢. We mourn with you for all years to come

This sounds makes me wanna cry so sad this bird will forever be alone but never be forgotten

I’m sure in the future we can hopefully bring the Kauai O’o bird back

This is haunting. What a beautiful call. Humans have ruined whole ecosystems with their non-native introductions. So many species lost before action was taken. These islands must have been filled with glorious birdsong before settlers arrived.

Imagine every human on earth disapear, only you left,you have hope in discovering others but to no avail, only animals are left ehich cant keep you company, no miracles to save you, just you and only you, and u die all alone in a world where u were the last one of ur species Thats that bird's situation And we were the cause

it pains me to know that this bird was calling out for a mate, a mate that doesnt exist.

Bir kuş için bu kadar hüzünleneceğim aklıma gelmezdi

God that has to be the most beautiful bird song I ever heard and will never hear. What an immense tragedy. What have we done...what a sin

poor little guy was calling for someone who would never be able to answer..

Man I was expecting this bird to have gone extinct due to poaching or deforestation but instead it was inadvertently killed off… what a shame though, it’s such a pretty bird

And it’s such a beautiful song too. It just really saddens that these beautiful creatures no longer exist.

Calling for a mate who will never come...

Sapta sagara daache yello side B

Someone better make this a bird noise in a horror game set in a forest

Tbh I keep hearing this bird in my dreams I felt like it's just a message from my dream I mean this is one of my favorite extinct birds but I wish they were never extinct...

It goes hard when the bird decide to fly away

It's calling out for a mate that will never come back

Now this is a bird scientist needs to bring back from Extinction trying to bring back the mosasaurus sucka

In new Zealand there is lots of birds that make sounds familiar to the kauai o'o bird and that was a year before my dad was born so maybe my Nana can tell me about it but I wish I was alive just to see it but I still love this bird and if your reading this merry x mas to all of you❤

The Kauai 'Ō'ō, now forever extinct, left behind a beautiful melody that will live on in our hearts

My heart strings break when I listen to this. His so beautiful and as a species. Now they are gone forever 😢

what a haunting yet beautiful sound.

Sad thing: the camera man rolled the tale back after the bird left. The bird came back, thinking there was another one of his kind Edit: nvm don’t believe this

I hate that their extinction is our fault. And so many other species' extinctions as well.

The last male kauai' o'o bird was recorded singing the last mating call in 1987 to a female kauai'o'o bird that would never come.😭

One of my favorite songs samples this bird, it’s amazing to learn the backstory.

Completely heartbreaking 😞

Beautiful sound. Thanks for the video.

One of the most haunting sad stuffs humans ever captured.. 😔

So thats why kaua'i ō'ō sound record at last suddently dissapeard because the bird flies away i thought it will fall on trees

without subtitles: 😢 with subtitles : 💀

I learnt to whistle this song,i ocasionally hum it too.

His Voice Feels Lonely

You could trace it back millions and millions of years, yet just like that, it's gone forever. Seriously depressing.

The bird sounds beautiful… it’s truly devastating that it has gone extinct.

Can confirm this is the most haunting thing I've ever heard

It's sad yet unsettling at the same time. Imagine if these happening to Human in the future.

God it sounds so beautiful

What we've done to this planet is absolutely unforgivable

This video is so eerie

The strangest thing is that I recently found this video after getting back from my grandpas place in kauai and for some strange reason i was outside playing with his dog and i hear this exact bird call it seemed more complete How ever ive only heard it twice the last time i went once was the time i just mentioned and the other i was out on a walk thru his neighborhood. I didnt have my phone both times but im going back soon and im gonna try and get a recording of it if i hear it again

Oh no!!:( I heard this sound when im 20 years old 😭😭😭it was an old friend that died:(:(i hope we will meet it on heaven🥺🥺🥲🥲 (Kauai O'o)

Is it just me or is this kinda magical

Very beautiful and trippy sounding, it's a real shame there gone.

This will forever send shivers down my spine

Glad they put the comic book style “look at me” marks on the screen. I didn’t know what a bird was until the video pointed it out to me. It was hidden right in the center of the frame, too. I never would have seen it there.

"The Last Survivor"

I feel this in my heart, and I'm not one to react this way to videos. Sad and oh so haunting.

RIP ō’ō we will miss your beautiful calls and you will always be in my heart🩵💜

I miss kauoi'Ō'Ō Bird 🕊️❤️