1 posted on
04/28/2005 1:49:43 PM PDT by
jb6
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To: jb6
Would somebody get the Toon out of the bushes.
2 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
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 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: jb6
This ought to be good for locking up several hundred thousand square miles of wild lands. /sarcasm.....
9 posted on
04/28/2005 2:00:15 PM PDT by
konaice
To: jb6
I hear they taste just like whooping crane.
10 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: 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.
15 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
16 posted on
04/28/2005 2:12:07 PM PDT by
the_daug
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.
19 posted on
04/28/2005 2:21:19 PM PDT by
BluH2o
To: jb6
Here in Connecticut we had long bee afraid that our native Pileated Woodpeckers had disappeared also. But I can happily report that they have returned with vigor. So vigorous in fact that every spring the males have developed an annoying habit of pecking energetically any metal smoke stack that they can reach, like the one on my house for the oil burner, which the builder had failed to to cover. The stack if covered with dents from the mating rap of Woody. |
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21 posted on
04/28/2005 2:25:40 PM PDT by
antonia
("Democracy is the worst type of government, excepting all others." ~ Churchill)
To: RadioAstronomer; Right Wing Professor; RightWingAtheist
Ornithology ping.
To: jb6
I saw several during the mid 70s in East Texas, long after they were declarted Extinct.
The same naturalists who thought the Aligator 'endangered' made the declaration.
SO9
To: jb6
A sapling springs up in the clearing between two enemies, a beech forest and a birch forest. Since I'm making this up as I go along, these talking trees argued vociferously about the parentage: birch or beech?
One day an ivory-billed woodpecker alighted on the little sapling and began pecking. Standing ent-like on tip-roots they asked as one:
"Oh woodpecker (since wp's are experts in all things wood) what is the youngster--a birch or a beech?"
He thought about the question, wiped his beak and replied,
"Gee, I dunno about that, but I'd have to say it's the best piece of ash I've ever had my pecker in." And flew away.
To: jb6
"More than 60 years after the last confirmed sighting of the species in the United States, a research team today announced that at least one male ivory-bill still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest."
Uh, contrary to the same sex marriage crowd, at least one female ivory-bill also still survives in vast areas of bottomland swamp forest.
27 posted on
04/28/2005 3:06:13 PM PDT by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: jb6
Wonder what they taste like?
29 posted on
04/28/2005 3:18:55 PM PDT by
Waterleak
(I pity the fool)
To: jb6
"The pussycat swallow tail"
-Remember the Gilligans Island with the bird watcher searching for this thought-to-be-extinct breed?
LOL
33 posted on
04/28/2005 4:51:24 PM PDT by
Finalapproach29er
(America is gradually becoming the Godless,out-of-control golden-calf scene,in "The Ten Commandments")
To: jb6
I doubt that it's real. Probably a man in a feather suit.
35 posted on
04/28/2005 5:00:47 PM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
(Life is like a cow pasture, it's hard to get through without stepping in some mess.)
To: jb6
What's the bag limit for the ivory-billed woodpecker?
41 posted on
04/28/2005 5:16:00 PM PDT by
Go Gordon
(I love to snatch kisses..............and vice versa)
To: jb6
ObPrincessBride: Well, there's a big difference between "mostly extinct" and "wholly extinct".
45 posted on
04/29/2005 1:08:57 AM PDT by
MirrorField
(Just an opinion from atheist, minarchist and small-l libertarian.)
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