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Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big Woods of Arkansas
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| 28-Apr-2005
Posted on 04/28/2005 1:49:28 PM PDT by jb6
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:49:43 PM PDT
by
jb6
To: jb6
Would somebody get the Toon out of the bushes.
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:50:57 PM PDT
by
dts32041
(Two words that shouldn't be used in the same sentence Grizzly bear and violate.)
To: jb6
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:52:11 PM PDT
by
MississippyMuddy
(No peace, without FREEDOM!!)
To: jb6
I read awhile back that the Carl Zeiss company in Germany had sponsored an expedition to Louisianna because someone had recorded what sounded like the sound of that same bird.
They never found one and decided it was the sound of a .22 rifle. I now wonder if it might have really been one.
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:52:56 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: jb6
Oddly enough, North America's biggest peckerwood also hails from Arkansas.
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:53:09 PM PDT
by
LexBaird
("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
To: jb6
Evolution must have decided to just remake them.
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:53:29 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(If Judge Greer can run America then I guess just about anyone with a spine could do the same.)
To: LexBaird
One of Arkansas' two leading peckerwoods:
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:55:37 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
To: MississippyMuddy
Cool post to say the least. This is very very exciting. It's also known as the 'Good Lord' bird, the reaction people use to have on seeing it for the first time. That's how impressive it is. Hopefully the habitat can be preserved. I know that doesn't fly well with a lot of republicans, the idea of actually leaving a large swath of territory alone. I'm not against drilling in ANWR, but you know what I mean. (On the other hand, there really isn't a good reason to drill up there either.)
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posted on
04/28/2005 1:58:15 PM PDT
by
againstallhope
(another berkeley conservative)
To: jb6
This ought to be good for locking up several hundred thousand square miles of wild lands. /sarcasm.....
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:00:15 PM PDT
by
konaice
To: jb6
I hear they taste just like whooping crane.
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:04:44 PM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(John Kerry - When even your best still isn't good enough)
To: konaice
>>This ought to be good for locking up several hundred thousand square miles of wild lands. /sarcasm.....
I was going to say the same thing.
"Quick! Let's stop development on all surrounding private property!"
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:05:34 PM PDT
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: itsahoot
Maybe some passenger pigeons will turn up in there as well.
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:05:44 PM PDT
by
LikeLight
("You will regret any attempts to turn these posts into a comic book.")
To: dts32041
Thanks for the post. We have a similar bird that passes through out woods, the Pileated Woodpecker. Huge attractive bird.
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:06:36 PM PDT
by
raisincane
(Addicted to FR)
To: Slump Tester
I hear they taste just like whooping crane.They're more tender than Bald Eagle, that's for sure.
To: jb6
Thanks for this great posting. I've seen Pileated Woodpeckers, which I think are pretty similar, but this would be cooler still. Time to start looking for the dodo.
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:10:33 PM PDT
by
speedy
To: jb6
I seen that bird in northern Louisiana hanging with this bird
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:12:07 PM PDT
by
the_daug
To: konaice
LOL, that was my first thought - I hope this bird isn't on private property.
With that said, it's a beautiful bird.
To: LexBaird
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:16:16 PM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
To: jb6
Great news ... the ivory billed woodpecker, if it makes it back from near extinction would be a plus for all Americans. The pilated woodpecker ( a cousin of the ivory billed) is an impressive bird ... however, not nearly as striking as the ivory billed. We had a pilated awhile back who found a hollow tree not far from our home ... it sounded like a jackhammer. Apparently they like hollow trees, not only as a food source, but apparently the god awful racket attracts the opposite sex. Sort of like a teenager cruising down main street in a hotrod without a muffler ... the more noise the better.
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:21:19 PM PDT
by
BluH2o
To: BluH2o
Correction ... make that pileatedwoodpecker.
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posted on
04/28/2005 2:23:14 PM PDT
by
BluH2o
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