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    Your WORST identifiable photos

    https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FWS-R4-ES-2020-0109-0204
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    Your WORST identifiable photos

    Did you find it yet?
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    New Ivory-billed Woodpecker info

    Hi Mike. John from NY. I think a good summation of a number of nonsensical EU comments is jealousy. Did you see the new USFW Comments? Lots of good information. Only a matter of time before someone gets a closeup.--...
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    Improved video cam setup for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

    This would work if there was a quick and easy way to sample a lot of holes easily in a suspected IB area, but not randomly in any forest.
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    New Ivory-billed Woodpecker info

    I would just contact him, and maybe post your ideas on the three Facebook Ivorybill pages (that can be quite professional).
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    New Ivory-billed Woodpecker info

    What is the habitat and the density of birds within? Both probably made the rediscovery easier than the IB's.
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    New Ivory-billed Woodpecker info

    What species do you work with?
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    New Ivory-billed Woodpecker info

    Bobby would be interested in any work you offer on this video, including mentioning interesting frames. Not sure about the bill, but if I had to choose between the words "absorbant" and "reflective" for this part, involving light on it, I would choose "absorbant." If you look at a specimen's...
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    New Ivory-billed Woodpecker info

    Thank you Mike, I was not aware of this article. John
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    Thoughts on a week with the SLC 15x56s

    I commonly carry my binocs like a shoulder belt on a car, so they stay under my right arm. Can still get to them quickly and I can hike faster, less weight on the neck proper.
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    Your WORST identifiable photos

    May I ask what kind of editing you did to achieve this image from a black blob?
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    Your WORST identifiable photos

    You should see the video.
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    Your WORST identifiable photos

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    Improved video cam setup for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

    I think the 16 lens is useful; that's the one used with the IB model. The bird can have an ID over 100 meters. I will be testing a 25mm lens soon. Someone else is testing the 16 with Pileated Woodpeckers.
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    Improved video cam setup for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

    Hi. Thank you for your continued work on this. Thought you might like to see the attached--
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    Improved video cam setup for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

    This has been done, but apparently is not considered "proof"-- The Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
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    Improved video cam setup for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

    I just always go back to the necessity of head-mounting this.
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    Improved video cam setup for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

    Hi, just saw this, sorry. I am not planning on suggesting paddle mounts, but if so, the diameter is fairly standard. I am still suggesting head-mounts. The 40mm lens is extreme; I am testing 16mm and 25mm. Each of these has wider field of view, but still good resolution. Someone is testing them...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker: takeoffs with deep and rapid flaps + wing noises

    Like I said to PYRTLE, prove it. The one thing you will NOT read here is him backing up his statement. He did not even state that the IB on a hat was "Sonny Boy," a juvenile that fell out of a nest. My conversation is not ugly, and instead of animosity I prefer directness. And please note that...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker: takeoffs with deep and rapid flaps + wing noises

    Without reference, your last statement is laughable. Prove it. Here's mine-- the birds have been noted to be wary for over 150 years. These accounts far outweigh any mentions of approachable birds. This comes from the new encyclopedic work by Chris Haney-- "Woody's Last Laugh: How The "Extinct"...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker: takeoffs with deep and rapid flaps + wing noises

    Yes.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker: takeoffs with deep and rapid flaps + wing noises

    Some IBs have responded to ADKs, but none have approached closely. They're not Magellanics.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker: takeoffs with deep and rapid flaps + wing noises

    The many accounts of the birds being wary, from the 1800s to the 2000s, far outnumber the accounts of them being approachable. The quickest way to read about all this is Chris Haney's new book Woody's Last Laugh.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker: takeoffs with deep and rapid flaps + wing noises

    I'm not Mike. I'm John Williams, Long Island NY. If we write at all alike, it's because we're both pragmatic. And we both don't suffer fools at length. You're mistaken. (And you're Pyrtle-- a bit hypocritical, no?)
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker: takeoffs with deep and rapid flaps + wing noises

    Two very astute paragraphs. Then a challenging last sentence. Let me take the high road and presume you're with USFW-- who have the power to decide the last sentence, and perhaps allow more wood-pellet and rice farm change of wild habitat. If there is evidence through each decade from the 1930s...
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