Gene led them around and they were unspeakably lucky because an Ivory-billed Woodpecker flew right in front of their canoe, and would have landed on their canoe had they not both shouted at it, simultaneously, "Ivory-bill!"Question: If "Elvis" was evidently willing to land on a canoe containing two uncamouflaged observers, then why is this guy wearing a ghillie suit?
The video shows the large woodpecker, the diagnostic pattern of white in the wing, both wings having trailing white, the white on the back, and it even has a little image of a perched bird sitting on the tree that they wish they had seen before they came around that corner...I disagree with everything after the "large woodpecker" phrase. Specifically, I think this little image isn't even a bird:
Fitzpatrick continues:
The program of research and conservation and agency involvement have gone on for a year. There are many mysteries that remain, tantalizing evidence of other birds, but not yet certain. We've surveyed a total of thousands of person-hours in an area about 5 percent of the Big Woods.I think that 5% figure may be technically accurate, since Fitzpatrick said "surveyed" rather than "searched". However, this statement is misleading, as I noted here.
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