OT-Ivorybill Rediscovered

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g.c.

George Cleveland wrote in
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What do you mean by off topic? I can think of dozens of patterns that
would be improved by those feathers! Oh-- you must mean it should have
been posted on ROFFT

Scott

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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Stupendous and wholly unexpected news!

However, there is ample reason to be nervous about the fact that it made the
news. Other bird species on the brink of extinction have been pushed over
the edge in part by people eager to see the last remnants, collect one last
specimen......or even just shoot it.

For anyone who's interested, Christopher Cokinos did an excellent job of
relating the story of the demise of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (as well as
the Carolina Parakeet, the Passenger Pigeon, the Great Auk, and a couple of
others) in his 2000 book, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal
Chronicle of Vanished Birds."

Wolfgang

On 4/28/05 9:31 AM, in article ,
"George Cleveland" wrote:

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The Lord God bird. Good news indeed! Here is the Cornell lab web page with
more information on the ivory-billed:

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/

Interesting also to note, Wolfgang, that they waited as long as they could
before doing the press release- nearly 2 years!- to give the poor bird a
chance. Or at least so it appears. Not a bad idea, considering the
unintended harm a few hundred excited birders could cause.

Bill

On 4/28/05 11:24 AM, in article , "Jonathan Cook"
wrote:

William Claspy wrote:

Interesting also to note, Wolfgang, that they waited as long as they could
before doing the press release- nearly 2 years!- to give the poor bird a
chance. Or at least so it appears. Not a bad idea, considering the
unintended harm a few hundred excited birders could cause.

I agree this is awesome news, yet I'm troubled that despite waiting
1-2 years to announce it, and presumably continuing their quest,
they didn't have a picture. I hope their right, and believe they
probably are, but my skeptical side has a tingling that won't go
away...

The NPR story claims they have video, but I haven't found it online on
either the Cornell or the Nature Conservancy web sites.

Was just talking to a colleague. I got to wondering if the current U.S.
Administration pays any attention to the story of the ivory-billed
woodpecker when considering actions like drilling in the ANWR.

Bill

BTW Jon (and Scott), the loons I photographed several years ago returned
this week to the lagoon in front of the Art Museum, stopping over on their
way north.

Bill

Central Arkansas, that's interesting. The last sighting was
in Louisiana.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...oodpecker.html

--
Ken Fortenberry

The video is now available at:

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/

Bill

The only thing better than this sighting would be the discovery of a
living passenger pigeon. The fact that we were able to market hunt the
once most numerous bird species on the planet to extinction shows how
destructive mankind can be if we allow common sense to take a backseat
to greed.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:31:32 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

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g.c.
I've been excited about that today, ever since I heard it. I know I
have a dull life, so it takes very little to get me going, but this is
exceptional.

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