Ivory-billed Woodpecker (formerly updates) (7 Viewers)

[dave_in_michigan]

And then there's the simple Observer Effect, prefered theory of Official IBWO Search Teams everywhere.

 

[IBWO_Agnostic]

$50,000 reward for a photograph

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/242872/

 

[buck3m]

"All truth passes through 3 stages:"

"First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

As quoted by cyberthrush

 

[chris murphy]

"First it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

As quoted by cyberthrush

And?

 

[dacol]

Mike Colllins has some interesting news in his site.
Check the latest entry in http://fishcrow.com/winter09.html

Dalcio

 

[lewis20126]

Mike Colllins has some interesting news in his site.
Check the latest entry in http://fishcrow.com/winter09.html

Dalcio

Could you point us to the "interesting news" - perhaps I'm missing something?

thanks
alan

 

[lockbreeze926]

Only another 100k until this thread gets to a million views...........

 

[Johnny Allan]

$50,000 reward for a photograph

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/242872/

That reminds me, still no sign of Bill Smith's book with photos which was going to be "Available very soon" eight months ago.

 

[David Callahan]

Could you point us to the "interesting news" - perhaps I'm missing something?

thanks
alan

Scroll to the bottom of the link - he says he's publishing in PLoS! This I must see...

 

[salar53]

Mike Colllins has some interesting news in his site.
Check the latest entry in http://fishcrow.com/winter09.html

Dalcio

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).

 

[Ilya Maclean]

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).

It's on flight mechanics - no doubt lots of hard core analysis and stuff on flap rates, but no actual evidence.

Seems to be a bit of a trait with the IBWO debacle - if you can't come-up with anything solid, spout a load of scientific jargon, throw in a a bit of maths/stats/image/bark scaling analysis and hey presto, you got yourself an IBWO.

I wish real-life conservation was that easy.

 

[sandmartin]

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.

Has any one got photographic proof of a Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, there is a 50.000$ reward. contact Speakbreak.com. If you have remember me in your Christmas list.
Thank's Martin.

 

[buck3m]

David Sibley blog "required reading"

David Sibley has made a couple of excellent posts recently on the Ivory-billed woodpecker. For those interested in the bird and the search and who haven't seen those posts yet you'll want to check them out on his Sibley Guides Notebook blog

 

[colonelboris]

Could you point us to the "interesting news" - perhaps I'm missing something?

thanks
alan

I was amused by the comparison with Einstein there...

 

[Imaginos]

Following the link given for the video I can across this page. With the following:

"Wingspan. In order to estimate wingspan, I climbed up to the same position in the observation tree on June 18, 2008, and took photos of a 24-inch reference object that Dave from Michigan held in position below."

Is Dave from Michigan Dave_in_Michigan?

 

[jrwilton]

Has any one got photographic proof of a Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, there is a 50.000$ reward. contact Speakbreak.com. If you have remember me in your Christmas list.
Thank's Martin.

I was just passing the news along. Please don't contact me unless I win something. (c:

jwilton

 

[salar53]

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.

 

[London Birder]

This thread still lives!

I take it it's not yet twitchable ?

 

[Jon K.]

This thread will never die. I personally would not wish it to.

I watched the trailer, looks like good fun. Looks like it should be good entertainment for people on either side of the fence.

Strikes me as well made, perhaps showing both sides. Just a trailer though . . . . .

 

[dave_in_michigan]

Following the link given for the video I can across this page. With the following:

"Wingspan. In order to estimate wingspan, I climbed up to the same position in the observation tree on June 18, 2008, and took photos of a 24-inch reference object that Dave from Michigan held in position below."

Is Dave from Michigan Dave_in_Michigan?

Yeah, that's me.

If you recall, I had played around with some geometry to try to check Mike's flight speed estimate using reflections in that video. I contacted him for a better copy of the video, and found out he was heading back to make some actual measurements at the site. I was pretty interested in seeing how the actual measurements panned out, so I went down to lend a hand and to have a look around.