Study: Sound Was Not Rare Woodpecker, but Distant Gunfire

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[Pharmboy]

I would think that I could tell the difference between a woodpecker and a gun shot. But then again...

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

The liberals will have a field day with this one. "Oh, the irony...how it symbolizes man's so-called progress...(weeping)"

[NautiNurse]

Unless the ivory-billed is (was) a particularly slow pecker, seems the gunfire would have been in the fully automatic family.

[concerned about politics]

a Louisiana State University student's detailed account of a possible sighting in 1999 raised hopes that there .....could be a major land grab here to add to their oppression collection. Damn!

[CWRWinger]

Listening devices placed in Louisiana swamps in hopes of recording the sound of the ivory-billed woodpecker picked up sharp raps that turned out to be gunfire,

Someone with a Tac-Trigger on a 10/22?

[DWSUWF]

"...The liberals will have a field day with this one. "Oh, the irony...how it symbolizes man's so-called progress...(weeping)"..."

How long before some PETA-freak whines that further analysis of the tape reveals that the sounds are guns being used to slaughter the last remaining Ivory Peckerwoods?

[concerned about politics]

.......the sound of the ivory-billed woodpecker

Oh great. The swamps will be swarming with gay guys!

[dighton]

BANG BANG!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Longing for the days of embedded thread music...

[blam]

"Unless the ivory-billed is (was) a particularly slow pecker"

We have some slow peckers around here.

[vetvetdoug]

Old timers tell me that Ivory Billed woodpeckers taste like chicken..Maybe they were hearing the sounds of some coon-ass hunting an Ivory Billed?

[300winmag]

Unless the ivory-billed is (was) a particularly slow pecker, seems the gunfire would have been in the fully automatic family.

Not necessarily. The sonic boom from a single round, echoing off hundreds of different trees, can sound like a spastic machinegun.

I was working in the target butts, and the first thing I heard was the sharp crack (the sonic boom) of the round going overhead. Then came a fairly faint boom, the noise of the explosion at the muzzle. Then came the crack-crack-crack-crack of reflected shock waves as the bullet headed into the woods in the impact area. Finally, a loud SPLAT as the bullet hit a tree.

[Pharmboy]

LOL!! But I coulda sworn I heard an AR-15 in the fourth bar...

[fella]

Just to see what this bird looks like I grabed my ole 1977 'National Audubon Society Field Guide' and guess what. It's not listed. So I can only conclude that this bird was gone before 77' and is being drug up now for political correctness reasons.

[Pharmboy]

Nice job. It pays to save old books, eh?

[concerned about politics]

Fitzpatrick said he still thinks it's possible that the ivory-billed woodpecker is living in parts of the Pearl River forest outside of the area covered by the machines.

WOW. If they push that theory, it could be one of the biggest land grabs in American history! Birds fly!

[NautiNurse]

ROFL!

[piasa]

Nice to see some honest researchers... instead of the federal and state numbskulls who fabricated the lynx 'sign' when they couldn't find evidence of active lynx habitation.

It would be a fine thing to see Ivorybills again. They were huge, marvelous birds, and the they were also the southeastern indian symbol of war, and credited in myth with helping to find and release water, which had been hidden away in giant reeds, onto the earth for people so that they could prosper.

There were also ivorybills on Cuba but I think Fidel took care of that with his environmental programs. Maybe he found out that female Ivorybills weren't red in the head and evidently had them all executed, or perhaps the birds were pecking more than their allotment of wood and bugs.

[Pharmboy]

[DETAILER]

Fitzpatrick said he still thinks it's possible that the ivory-billed woodpecker is living in parts of the Pearl River forest outside of the area covered by the machines.

Definitely possible. If you've eve been in the deep woods and swamps of Louisiana, you have to know there are places that still have never been seen by human eyes...... Really.