believers win..........
wild turkeys are very wary.... tame turkeys are not....
Welcome back again, Choupique! Was that you whom I recognised in "Stalking The Ghost Bird"?
Of course it was. Now I enjoyed that read.
believers win..........
wild turkeys are very wary.... tame turkeys are not....
It's a crash alright, and people are rubbernecking. However, they are looking at the cynics who have crashed onto the hard ground of stunned belief!
Seriously. Have you read Steinberg's book? He is SURE that the birds are there. And so are others as least as "expert" as Louis!
I don't care how "sure" anyone is. Lots of people are sure that Bigfoot exists, etc, etc, etc. Without a photograph, Steinberg's book is simply more of the same.
And some of you believers seem to be more excited about the humiliation of the skeptics than about the rediscovery of the bird. Why is that?
11 February 2004 sighting. Field marks noted by G. Sparling were the bird's unusually large size compared to pileated woodpecker, peculiarly pointed red crest with black anterior edge, long neck, and extensive white on lower half of folded wings showing slight yellowish tinge along edges "like parchment paper.
On 11 February 2004, at about 1400 CST, Gene Sparling of Hot Springs, Arkansas observed a large woodpecker while kayaking along the Bayou de View within the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Monroe County, about 8 km west of Brinkley, Arkansas (Figure 1). The bird landed on a tree about 20 m in front of his kayak. He noticed that it looked different from Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) and posted a description of the bird—which he observed without binoculars—to a website for kayak and canoe enthusiasts. His description included unusually large size, extensive white on the folded wing (with an "odd yellowish" color to the white at its edges), a light-colored bill, a crest relaxed but clearly with some red. He described the bird's movements as jerky and animated, with a cartoonish quality.
Louis Bevier; said:To me, having held many Ivory-bill specimens and had them held at a distance (testing characters visible in the field), there is no credible way Sparling could have noted the black anterior edge of the crest and not have seen a three inch long bright, white bill…if it was an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
believers win..........
wild turkeys are very wary.... tame turkeys are not....
Right, being the curious type, I'll take the bait, Choupique. Ah, if I was really a leaping salmon in my local River Faughan, I wouldn't survive for long.
What do you mean by, "About to be game over"?
And, "Believers win"?
How long do we have to wait?
Some thoughts on humility:
http://bbill.blogspot.com/
Does the new, bolder, more confident lettering not tell you something?
Yes, that another load of string is about to spew forth from the believers camp! It would be hilariously funny if we weren't pissing away important conservation dollars on this joke.
....And you ask for more hard evidence. I respectfully direct you to Cyberthrush's revamped website here....
Does the new, bolder, more confident lettering not tell you something?
How many countless millions of dollars, "conservation" or otherwise, are being spent on that little "fence" (made of solid brick and concrete, of course) that is being proposed to stretch along the border from Texas to California?
And how much wildlife will it "protect"?
Now that's what I call a sick joke.
Yaaaaawwwwnnnnnnn! You're like a broken record Salar me old Irish chum. You can pick any number of ridiculous follies that our government and their agencies throw away our tax dollars on. I, like many here, just wish that the ones who were involved in conservation funding weren't investing in equally half-baked schemes.