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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Just saw this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14yxYTOdL38 is it a Campephilus robustus?
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    $50,000 reward for a photograph http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/242872/
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Okay, this is fun and all, BUT, let's not forget Mike Collins has spent a LOT of time in this area, and has been unable to adequately document an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. If there are birds as he contends there is NO WAY he wouldn't be able to see the bird repeatedly and obtain photographs. I...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    The recent post by Fishcrow just seemed to lead me to this: King Arthur: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land? 1st soldier with a keen interest in birds: Are you suggesting coconuts...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Hey check out the May 1 postings on ID-Frontiers Man, that is so excellent. Nicely done Will. (and effectively done apparently if you notice that no one indeed took the bait)
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    From Fishcrow: In fact, a woodpecker expert has noticed details in the March 29 video that he believes an observer such as Tanner would not have been able to detect during an observation of a live bird. Okay, now THAT might just be the funniest thing he's written so far. I'm sorry, i'm...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    This is federal money, which, if not spent, simply disappears....No lie...it's gone....no one knows where it goes....I mean someone probably does, but they really can't tell you. I believe, personally, it goes into a slush fund for booze & hookers, but I can't prove that.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    “We saw plenty of pileateds from the air, and could even photograph the majority of them as they flushed on either side of the aircraft’s flight path,” Lammertink says. “But what we saw was a small percentage of the birds we know are actually there, based on population-density surveys we’ve done...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Post #509 by Fishing4Clues "That is when I was told that it was a Ivorybilled. This sighting occured in aug.1999 I told the wildlife officers in decof 1999 and met Gene Sparling the first time in Jan 2000. Then when the press is called in 2005 they released that Gene found the bird within 1/2...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    They are still expending significant effort on audio recording. Let me put this in bold. NO AUDIO RECORDINGS WILL CONSTITUTE DEFINITIVE PROOF. And since they are not analyzing the recordings in real time to find 'hot spots', what is the point? Every thing else seems reasonable. Searching...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Curunir, People aren't avoiding Tom's blog because they don't care about the future of all species, they are avoiding it (at least I am) because he's lost his way. Denying global warming or man's role in it, will not make it go away. Tom's barking up the wrong tree and the lack of people...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    I wrote this for the Tom Nelson site awhile back: Fitzcrow: ....I wish to complain about this woodpecker what I discovered not less than 2 years ago from this very big woods. skeptics: Oh yes, the, uh, the Pileated...What's,uh...What's wrong with it? Fitzcrow: I'll tell you what's wrong with...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    I'd go so far as to say that SINCE 2005, we have MORE evidence that the IBWO is extinct. The increased search effort in likely habitat since 2005 and it's failure to obtain incontrovertible evidence of the species really add to this 'belief' in extinction. The key word here is...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    As I read Fishcrow's blog and read how his house was ransacked and now his foot hurts, I just worry that this is all going to end badly for our little fishy. And to give equal time....over at Tommy's skeptic site, you have to scroll through 15 posts before you'll find one that someone...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    I don't think anyone (birder, nonbirder, committee) is rejecting a claim because it can't be replicated. I think we are rejecting claims that cannot be independently verified. The lack of replication is troubling...extremely troubling, but is not the reason for rejection.
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