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  1. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I have to hear it, so to speak, do I not? All I'm "hearing" now, is the clock ticking. But, for what?
  2. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I personally, feel the clock has stopped ticking for our ghost bird, many years ago. Today, we have DNA technology and science that can narrow the odds to irrefutable. New, low cost fecal-DNA extraction kits out in the last 6 months. Fecal DNA extraction has been used to track rhino in Africa...
  3. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    The IUCN would have considerable input to governmental agencies throughout the world. Campephilus principalis When I was too young to fully understand the implications, the dusky seaside sparrow (Ammospiza maritima nigrescens) was declared extinct in 1990. Three years after the last captive...
  4. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    It is easy for us to prove trolls exist among us. Proving nothing exist any longer, much more difficult
  5. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    Since the mid 1940's, only one flight feather belonging to our ghost bird has been found. All the secondaries and many of the primaries are uniquely unlike anything else in North America What is not being seen is rather compelling in the argument. Conclusive photographs and/or witnessed...
  6. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    Sure, I am aware of that. The stand of short leaf pine on my place is fully capable of sustaining red-cockaded woodpeckers (Dryobates borealis). Another North American Picidae in trouble. Surely, you've come across them if you venture beyond Manitee State park, and its 800 acres full of bald...
  7. Bird_Bill

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I live in the (former?) range of that bird. Grew up along the Mississippi, where the ancient stands of bald cypress, and tupelo nurtured generations of the Ivory bill. The river channelized, the habitat erased, the entire ecosystem gone for the most part. The hope exist, but realistically, I...
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