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  1. Larry Sweetland

    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    That's rich coming from you, John. We all know that you are actually Jos Stratford ;)
  2. Larry Sweetland

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    Considering that you have so far avoided nearly all my questions, that's not an unexpected response!
  3. Larry Sweetland

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    It seems to be a problem for anyone viewing this thread to provide a link to a convincing field description. I've asked a couple of times within this thread, and it's either been ignored or responded to in an unintelligible way (without any reference to any field description/ detailed finder's...
  4. Larry Sweetland

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    Martian or Venusian?
  5. Larry Sweetland

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    Just when I thought this thread couldn't get any more surreal!
  6. Larry Sweetland

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    Welcome to Birdforum. Sorry I'm confused, what isn't, and how is this relevent?
  7. Larry Sweetland

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    Has anyone got a link to a convincing field description of a recent IBWO sighting, that describes the sighting in detail and explains how, eg, leucistic PIWO and leucistic corvids were ruled out? I'm assuming there must be some descriptions out there if there have been several claimed...
  8. Larry Sweetland

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    No, exactly the opposite in fact. It connotes enough respect for their reliability at field identification among American birders (perhaps internationally too), to result in a large number of American birders believing that the species is likely to be extant. And how will we know when a number...
  9. Larry Sweetland

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    I'm sorry to say that I don't believe you. As I mentioned upthread, if those 'respected birders' were respected by birders, there would be loads of birders constantly looking for it. And apparently there aren't.
  10. Larry Sweetland

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    Another thing.... It has been mentioned (I think) that some of the sightings have been by respected birders. Respected by who? Certainly not respected by people who spend their lives obsessed with identifying and finding birds. I'm pretty sure that if a birder who was widely respected to be a...
  11. Larry Sweetland

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    That would depend on the bird, the birders, the circumstances of the sighting, and numerous other factors. If the bird they had claimed to see was thought to be extinct, there would be incontrovertible proof required.
  12. Larry Sweetland

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    For me personaly, a convincing highly detailed field description of a sighting by an experienced birder (whether or not they are scientists is completely irrelevant) would go some way towards piquing my interest. I have yet to even see a link to a convincing field description. Unfortunately...
  13. Larry Sweetland

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    I could expand on that, but everything's been said so many times before. I wasn't even being sarcastic. I honestly believe that what I wrote was true.
  14. Larry Sweetland

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    This is , I believe, a very telling point. If you believe that a bird as large and strikingly patterned as Ivory-billed Woodpecker can exist in the USA for several decades without incontrovertible proof that it exists, then who knows how many less conspicuous unknown breeding bird species might...
  15. Larry Sweetland

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    Are you implying that there is evidence, but it has been kept from the general public? Seems a bit odd that it would be kept secret by people that are trying to prove that they're not extinct. Unless the people with the evidence want the majority of people to continue to believe that they are...
  16. Larry Sweetland

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    I really think that some people are overthinking this. The only equation that needs to be applied here is: big woodpecker x zero easily identifiable images in several decades = there aren't any there.
  17. Larry Sweetland

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    Or perhaps a leucistic crow? Carrion Crows with white flight feathers are common in some places, though I don't know how often this occurs in American Crow (if at all).
  18. Larry Sweetland

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    Perhaps the people trying to get evidence of the continued existence of IBWO would have more luck with Eskimo Curlew or Bachman's Warbler. They haven't been declared extinct yet either, and at least they have more potential for being overlooked than a massive great woodpecker.
  19. Larry Sweetland

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    It wasn't the identification of the feather that I was referring to. I was referring to your comment about numerous other recent reports and 'evidence' that you remarked that I must have missed. I have yet to read an observation account, or see an image, that has convinced me that it had to be...
  20. Larry Sweetland

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    And you seem to have missed a basic understanding of how easy it can be to misidentify birds in the field.
  21. Larry Sweetland

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    But the fact that no-one's even managed to find a feather in more than 50 years isn't looking that good is it?
  22. Larry Sweetland

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    Can anyone summarise the bit about a feather being found please?
  23. Larry Sweetland

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    There will presumably be some living people who have seen it in Cuba, though possibly (?) no BFers.
  24. Larry Sweetland

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    So you're basically saying that birders in the US can't bird for toffee, and there's been a whopping great Campephilus in their back yard avoiding their lists by climbing round the backs of trees for several decades 😁. quite an insult to the birding community really. Feel free to say that UK...
  25. Larry Sweetland

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    Wow! There's a thought. 'Walking with dinosaurs' is quite convincing, considering. And with each passing day computer generated imagery just gets more and more real...
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