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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Collins ID frontiers/RHWO in flight Collins post is here, one response is here--suggests 5 November video is Red-headed Woodpecker. Red-headed frequently make slow fly-catching flights, or slow half-gliding flights between two perches, in my experience. I think of their flight as being very...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Birdlife illustration/photo Just FYI, in a parallel discussion on Cyberthrush's blog (here) another correspondent was told by the artist that the illustration in question was indeed based on an altered photo of a Black Woodpecker, Dryocopus martius. That's what I had guessed in my comment (I'm...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    IBWO illustration A BirdLife International person sent me a very kind e-mail confirming that it is a painting. It is a very small reproduction, so that, perhaps, explains the confusion. It sure looked like a Photoshopped photo to me! I think that if a living population of IBWO were found...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Odd photo of Ivory-billed Woodpecker on Birdlife Intl. Site The ever-vigilant Cyberthrush recently highlighted (here) Birdlife International's Quest launched to find 'lost' birds. At the top of the page is a very striking color illustration of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker in flight (detail here)...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    non-update from Cornell on "2008-090" search season Apparently Cornell just posted a note about the last search season--in the "current search" section: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/current0607/ Note that was originally a directory for the 2006-07 search. I will quote it verbatim. I...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Four years later... The very first post in this thread, from 18 May, 2005: Four years after this announcement, not many updates are going on. Their last news release was September 26, 2007. As Cyberthrush notes: ..."official press releases" on the IBWO went from 10 in 2005, to 3 in 2006, to 1...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    March 2009 Cornell search team update/announces end of their search Cornell has posted an update from the Mobile search team dated March 2009. (I did not see it the other day, so I believe it was just posted, probably today, Friday 27 March 2009.) For the past two months, the Cornell Lab of...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Photo faking predicted in 2005 Wow, how time flies. I thought I had a hazy memory that the Blog-that-shall-not-be-named had predicted this. I had forgotten that it was way back in 2005: Disclaimer: Before y'all start jumping all over me, I want to state, for the record, that I am politically...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Schrodinger's Woodpecker cover-up Thanks. I can't take full credit--the quantum mechanics metaphor dates back to 2006, at least, in an article from the New York Times (13 Ways of Looking at an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker ) by Jack Hitt. Cyberthrush has also used the metaphor here. However I suppose...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    thanks, correction Thanks for the correction--I was looking at the news releases they highlighted on the main page, the last of which was in 2006. The complete list of news releases is here, and as you mentioned, the latest is from September 2007, with the link Ivory-billed Woodpecker Search...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    revisions of Cornell's BNA account / USFWS site Previously, I noted an interesting contrast in different versions of Cornell's Birds of North America account for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker: There is now a new wording on the BNA account, dated July 2008: Editor's Note: July 2008 -- Since...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Historical range IBWO/Cornell now skeptical! For a quite thorough discussion of the historic range of the IBWO, I think one should look at Jerome Jackson's account in Cornell's Birds of North America--this is the one species account they have free on-line for that otherwise fee site. Jackson...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    double counter bluff/tree It's obviously a double counter bluff. They know people want to know the location of the IBWO, and will discover it, so they publish it on the Internet, and then say they are keeping it secret. Devilishly clever. To misquote (slightly) Kevin Kline's character Otto in A...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    right--the point is... Why am I not surprised that the figure of 75 feet was not firm. It was probably lower--most people overestimate heights when up in a tree, a building, etc. My point was that the whole thing is pointless--and you are agreeing with me. IBWO cannot be told from any number...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    wingspan calculations/where is audio track? OK, this is all very interesting, but I just can't believe the process has an error of only 10 percent. Do we really even know the height of the camera to within 10 percent? We hear that it is "75 feet"--that sounds like a round figure to me, but...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Fishcrow video I looked at it several times, both the original AVI and the animated GIF. I see a hint of a very long neck stretching out in front in one or two frames--of course, one cannot be sure of that, or anything. The overall flight pattern and wing shape remind me of a Great Blue Heron...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    spurious reports go back to 30's After I commented to the above previously, I ran across this account by Arthur Allen, written in 1939, from Bent's Life Histories of North American Birds, available here. The calls of the two large species of woodpeckers are so distinct that they should not be...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    more on ignored reports Well, here is the original statement you made: I showed, I think that, there has, in fact, been lots of follow-up over a period of decades. You said completely ignored--that is hardly the case. I don't think there is enough money in the world to follow up on all...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    ... and bark scaling is not distinctive for IBWO The idea that a particular pattern of bark scaling, especially the width of grooves created by the bird's bill, is distinctive for the IBWO, has been refuted by some of the very researchers who had originally claimed it was diagnostic. See...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    the myth of non-follow-up I really think this is a myth--that reports were not followed up on for all this time. (Some were scoffed at--yes--that is because details and documentation were largely lacking.) As a young birder in Oklahoma in the 1960's, I remember the rumors about Ivory-billed...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    wayback/Xerces Blue The Wayback Machine has plenty on that site. Darn, you beat me to this one! Yes, that was very bold of them to write the report that way. I wonder if some of the people on the ground are trying to drop a hint to the higher-ups at Cornell? It sure looks that way to me.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    more Cornell updates, including that white trailing edge Cyberthrush noted that Cornell's Mobile Search Team has a recent update (here), and there is also a recent update, apparently, to the Arkansas Search Team log. I had not noticed these because the recent updates were not noted on the...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    But wait, there's more irony to be found... But wait just a minute, what about the famous sighting quoted by Matt Mendenhall in his 2005 article in Birder's World here: 5. Altamaha River Basin, Georgia, 1958 Observer: Ornithologist and forest ecologist Herbert Stoddard, who devoted the final...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    As the Woodpecker Flies... (update from Cornell) The Cornell University IBWO search team has just (15 April 2008) posted an update about their helicopter search efforts, As the Woodpecker Flies.... A couple of choice quotes: Searching for Ivory-billed Woodpeckers on foot and by boat in dense...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    good point--distinctive? Good point. However does anyone have any way of recognizing a single knock as being distinctive, or even suggestive, for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker? As far as I know, not even the double-knock was recorded when the bird was known to be extant. All sorts of things...
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