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Confirmed: Ivory Billed Woodpecker Lives
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/02bird.html?hp&ex=1122955200&en=30bfaf841c575eba&ei=5094&partner=homepage ^

Posted on 08/01/2005 6:28:32 PM PDT by Altair333

Published: August 2, 2005 The phoenix had nothing on the ivory-billed woodpecker. It is hard to keep track of how many times this near-mythic bird, the largest American woodpecker and a poignant symbol of extinction and disappearing forests, has been lost and then found. Now it is found again. Even the most skeptical ornithologists now agree. They say that newly presented evidence shows that at least two of the birds are living in Arkansas.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: 1howmuchwood; 2wouldawoodpeckpeck; 3ifawoodpeck; 4couldpeckwood; cryptobiology; godsgravesglyphs; huntingseason; ivorybill; ivorybillwoodpecker; ornithology; tasteslikechicken; woodpecker
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Good news- let's hear it for the boid.
1 posted on 08/01/2005 6:28:33 PM PDT by Altair333
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To: Altair333

Do they taste like spotted owl?


2 posted on 08/01/2005 6:33:01 PM PDT by 359Henrie
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To: Altair333
They are delicious served with brown rice and topped with ribbon cane syrup. Which is kinda ironic because much of the forests in E. Texas that the bird needed to live in were cut down for rice and cane fields.
3 posted on 08/01/2005 6:33:14 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 ( Heaven on Earth is where the nearest Starbucks is 60 miles away.)
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To: Altair333

I'd love to hear the tapes. I hope during their investigations this winter that they get incontrovertable proof, minutes long video preferably, to lay this whole thing to rest. It's been my unprofessional opinion since it broke that the most likely (in my mind) reason for the reappearance is the population getting to the point where they have had to spread out for territories. I so hope that's true.


4 posted on 08/01/2005 6:37:20 PM PDT by Gardener
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To: Altair333
I live in Arkansas and I still doubt this without more proof.
Everything has hinged on alleged sighting and get this a 1/2 or 1/4 second piece of video of a bird in flight.
This is all the evidence there is. How would any of these people know what this woodpecker sounds like?
By the way there is another woodpecker of almost the same size but with different markings that could easily be mistaken for this thing. Are there any old recording that were done back in the 1930's.
This elusive bird has been claimed to have been seen at least 2 times in different places in the last 40 years.
What I want to see are pictures or really good digital video of this mythic creature. Until then I will continue to doubt.
5 posted on 08/01/2005 6:39:04 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Altair333

Hooray! I just love a good love story...two of them, huh?


6 posted on 08/01/2005 6:39:20 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9-11!)
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To: Altair333

Back from extinction! Hooray!


7 posted on 08/01/2005 6:40:56 PM PDT by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: Altair333

Wonder what Mr. Sibley has to say about this?


8 posted on 08/01/2005 6:41:33 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Captain Peter Blood

My amateur birder remembrance is that the Pileated Woodpecker bears a resemblance but is smaller. I sure want to believe this. Passenger Pigeon next, then we start on the Dodo.


9 posted on 08/01/2005 6:47:56 PM PDT by speedy
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Let's hope there is gender diversity between the two of them or they'll be extinct...again.


10 posted on 08/01/2005 6:48:08 PM PDT by skr (Almighty God, thank you for the liberty you have bestowed upon this nation.)
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To: speedy

I think that woodpecker is smaller but from the pictures I have seen it is not that much smaller and from a distance it might be thought to be the other mythic woodpecker.


11 posted on 08/01/2005 6:53:59 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Altair333
It is hard to keep track of how many times this near-mythic bird . . has been lost and then found.

Oh fer Pete's sake.

If they had been carrying a shotgun instead of a camera, they'd have proved it a long time ago.

12 posted on 08/01/2005 6:54:45 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: speedy
Dodo ?!?!? Heck, I want to see a Moa.
13 posted on 08/01/2005 7:02:12 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Captain Peter Blood

No offense, but the whole scientific community, even the hardcore skeptics are convinced. That's enough for me, on this topic, to rely on their opinions.


14 posted on 08/01/2005 7:03:37 PM PDT by golch1979 ("Captain Sobol, we solute the rank, not the man.")
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To: glorgau

By all means, the Moa it is. How would you like to be out in the field with the binoculars and see that? Well if we're going all out, let's just bring back the archaeopteryx (almost no chance I spelled that right.)


15 posted on 08/01/2005 7:06:00 PM PDT by speedy
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To: Altair333

Did it go "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, hahahahahahahaha!"


16 posted on 08/01/2005 7:06:18 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
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To: golch1979
The whole scientific community is not convinced and there is a huge article coming out challenging this.
Show me the proof. Everything right now is very slim and until I see some verified pictures I will remain skeptical.
17 posted on 08/01/2005 7:06:44 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: glorgau

That thing had some pair of drumsticks.


18 posted on 08/01/2005 7:07:11 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Captain Peter Blood

The people who spotted this are real experts. One of them spoke at a bird club I belong to. If you're referring to the pileated woodpecker as a similar bird, experienced birders can distinguish between the two birds in an instant. And, experienced birders can identify distinctive calls and rapping. It's partly a process of elimination.

This is tremendously good news. A bird thought to be extinct for more than sixty years has been found again. The ivory-billed has been referred to as the "Lord God" bird because of its spectacular, awe-inspiring appearance. People who've seen it in the past were stunned into the exclamation, "Lord God Almighty, what a bird!" It's one of the Creator's most magnificient creatures.

The guy I heard describe his experience in the Arkansas woods was choked with emotion. Arkansans should do everything in their power to preserve habitat in their state for this bird. This is just a tremendous, wonderful, reaffirmation that there are parts of this country that remain wild and free enough to sustain a magnificent creature like this.


19 posted on 08/01/2005 7:08:57 PM PDT by WestSylvanian
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Do you doubt because of your great expertise or is it because you live in Arkansas? This paper coming out was written, I think, before the sound recordings. If I'm not mistaken, many people who were going to write papers or had written papers doubting the sightings were convinced by the audio.


20 posted on 08/01/2005 7:09:38 PM PDT by golch1979 ("Captain Sobol, we solute the rank, not the man.")
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