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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Hoax? Who knows? Perhaps this is not a hoax. You might want to read Cyberthrush's latest post entitled --FLASH!-- What a mind-boggling turn of events, scarcely believable. But it's very readable, and highly entertaining.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    White Bill? I think I see a great big enormous honking white bill on Mike's "gliding" clip! And to my eyes there also seems to be a suggestion of a white dorsal stripe. Double click on Michael Collins' interesting clip and see what you think. http://www.fishcrow.com/2ndclip3nov09.mp4
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    And the power of a modern video camera, perhaps. Have a look at this and the preceding posts. 11-5-09. Two days ago, I obtained footage that is a quantum level better than previous footage. This morning, I obtained footage that is a few additional quantum levels better, confirms what I have...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Who knows with any absolute certainty? What is a fact that we as a species have collected too many Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, have shot too many of them, and have destroyed too much of their habitat. Such impressive forests. Such magnificent birds.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Well, except that even Indiana was not "way out of range". In fact it is (was) not out of range at all. And Audubon stated that this bird usually "only" nested once per year in that rather northerly state.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    If you haven't already done so, check out Cyberthrush's website here: http://ivorybills.blogspot.com/ It is ablaze with interesting speculation and comment recently. If you liken it to a film, he is producer and director, while Bill Pulliam is the undoubted star. Cyberthrush is deliberately...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Thank you for that link. I'm sure I can see a white shield on "Blurry Headed Bird #2". The authors say it is too large to be a Red Headed Woodpecker. So, I'll say it: it could possibly be an Ivory-billed Woodpecker! Likewise, I can see an extensive white trailing edge on the large "Mystery Bird...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Well, I respectfully disagree, Cyberthrush. For example, if the photographs are genuine, then Fielding Lewis was also likely being truthful when he said that he last saw the bird in 1989. Getting recent, aren't we? And Ivory-billed Woodpeckers, like donkeys, live for a long time. On your own...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    And just to spell it out, Fielding Lewis DID indeed produce photographic evidence in 1971.:t:
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Johnny, Fielding Lewis's photographs are in the public domain and they undoubtedly show an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. You mention the phrase, "irrefutably genuine photos". Are you saying they are faked? Can you prove it with all the modern technology at your disposal? It is interesting that IBWO...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Photographs Changing the subject only very slightly, I read this truly fascinating account of previous photographs of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. http://www.ibwo.net/forum/showthread.php?t=5&page=21 The account was written by Idlewild, a personal friend of the great, lamented Fielding Lewis...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Geoff Hill No sightings, but Geoff Hill is still more than hopeful. Here: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/cosam/departments/biology/faculty/webpages/hill/ivorybill/Updates.html
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Searching New Habitat There is an important update from Cornell here: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/latest/seasonstart09/document_view Searches will be carried out from East Texas to South Illinois and West Tennessee, and from South West Florida up to North Carolina.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Lord God All these priests, Peterbrash as befits, perhaps, The Lod God Bird. But then again ....... If I were out in Fielding Lewis's Louisiana swamps, and if I saw an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, (I can dream) I don't suppose that I would state,"Good Heavens! I do believe that I have just seen...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Well I am truly sorry to learn of the death of Fielding Lewis, another grand old character associated with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker story. He was referred to several times in this thread because of the (admittedly controversial) photographs he took in the early1970s of an Ivory-billed...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    At this time of reminiscing, I wonder if any of you ever think of Mary Scott of Ivory-billed Woodpecker fame? Well Cyberthrush has an intersting link here where she figures prominently: http://ghostbirdmovie.com/preview/maryscott.html In fact you should check out Cyberthrush's recent IBWO...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Information Michael Collins posts here today, 16th December, 2008. http://fishcrow.com/winter09.html He states that his paper "Flight mechanics of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker" was "pulled from publication on December 10".
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Coincidentally, with this discussion on extinction as opposed to critically endangered, Porcar over at IBWO.net today provides the following link. http://www.ace-eco.org/vol3/iss2/art5/ To me as a non-scientist, the research would seem to suggest that given reasonable conditions, large-bodied...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    There's no danger of that, The Surplus. And your own accuracy is in question, I see.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Mick who?
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    John Trapp has an interesting post here: http://birdstuff.blogspot.com/ (entry for 2nd December, 2008) It contains a trailer of the documentary Ghost Bird where at least one person who has most definitely seen the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is interviewed.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Thank you very much for that, Dalcio. I look forward to further developments anxiously and eagerly. Meanwhile, Cyberthrush has news of a humorous poster here: http://ivorybills.blogspot.com/ (the entry for Thursday, 20th November, 2008).
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Congratulations on a witty post, PCoin. Yes, I smiled. Coincidentally, Michael Collins referred to Schrodinger's old sparring partner, Einstein, here: http://fishcrow.com/winter09.html (entry for 21st October, 2008). Mr Collins suggests that much of the research into Ivory-billed Woodpeckers has...
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Yes.
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    Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates)

    Cornell's summary of the 2007/2008 season is available here: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/latest/0708summary/document_view
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