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That video had me all teary-eyed until I noticed the name of it, Hunt for the Elusive “Elvis” Woodpecker. Now that makes me mad. I am tired of comparisons between the return of The Lord God Bird and sightings of Bigfoot, Ufo’s, Cold Fusion, and Elvis.. Such comparisons are not valid and I can prove it.
Bigfoot- Bigfoot has been caught on blurry video tape numerous times. The IBWO only once.
UFO’s- UFO’s have also been caught on blurry video numerous times and also have a real museum dedicated to their landing. It’s in Roswell, NM. And I have been there. It is very convincing and impressive, but there is no museum dedicated to the return of the IBWO. ( And don’t get smart alecky and say “the Cornell Lab”. That is not a museum to the IBWO. That is a repository for all valid information about birds.)
Cold Fusion- The “discoverers” of Cold Fusion ultimately fled to France. Can you see Cornell moving to France? I don’t think so!!!!
Elvis- Ok, he’s never been caught on blurry tape, but his habitat, Graceland, has been perfectly preserved for his return. The IBWO habitat is NOT perfectly preserved for its return.
Slam dunk! Four out of four! No valid comparisons exist!
I suggest if you Skeptics cannot treat this bird with respect and without your belittling comparisons then please go get your own blog and leave us alone.
Signed,
The True Believer
Methinks that news-like piece must have cost Cornell a bundle! I can't imagine you need to look far for the connection that would yield a 5 min. piece with no mention of those lowly skeptics. The fact-checker couldn't even find out about the debunking paper three weeks ago in Science!
Oh T.B., doesn't it make you happy to see all those researchers in camo - except the one in the front of the canoe in white. But, of course, that may be just a video artifact.
I, for one, have always thought the camo was a hoot. But you can see how it starts. It's a politcally correct kind of thing. You are in the first meeting of the Search Protocol Team. Someone says, "we should all be in camo in case the bird has learned to avoid all humans."
There's an awkward moment. Everyone looks around. Everyone thinks it's unnecessary, then someone says. "Yes, good idea. We want to caution on the side of not disturbing the remaining birds." There's a general mummur of approval. On to next topic.....
Dear "methinks" above. As in Poe's "The Purloined Letter", sometimes the best way to hide is out in the open.
I also should remind you that it is not for us to ask why.
Signed,
The TB
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"Someone says, "we should all be in camo in case the bird has learned to avoid all humans."
"Yes, good idea. We want to caution on the side of not disturbing the remaining birds."
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In talking about these measures made to not disturb the bird, one must take notice to several issues concerning the original so-called discovery:
What I find amusing is that when this so-called major discovery was made, it was in the middle of duck season, in one of the most heaviest hunted areas in the areas inside the Cache River NWR, when the area was full of hunters in boats running up & down the bayou, discharging firearms, & creating an enviroment that totally goes against what Cornell states is not what the bird in question can stand. And as a side bar, the original sighting was made within 1/2 mile of the public boat ramp used by all these people and is also the same ramp used by the so-called discovers which is located right in between a main highway & Intersate 40, one of the heaviest used interstates in the United States.
One has to wonder if this bird was there under all these adverse conditions & as reported seen at numerous under these conditions, why has the bird now disappeared when all these adverse conditions been removed?
It does not add up that such an adlusive, very shy, people hating bird would have been committed to stay in such an area to be found so easy, but now that thing have been made so more bird friendly and the area has voided of this non-bird friendly things, he is no where to be found!!!!
Interesting to say the least!
What I find amusing is that when this so-called major discovery was made, it was in the middle of duck season, in one of the most heaviest hunted areas in the areas inside the Cache River NWR, when the area was full of hunters in boats running up & down the bayou, discharging firearms, & creating an enviroment that totally goes against what Cornell states is not what the bird in question can stand.
I doubt that you really know much about this area. For starters, duck season generally ends in late January. Second, you can't "run up and down the bayou" most of Bayou DeView. The channel isn't big enough.
Did you check out the guy in the full head to toe shaggy cammo ... that thing was amazing.
I imagine that this thing is going to end like WWII did for the japanese.
There will be a mushroom cloud and all the sensible people of Brinkley will keep their IBWO signage up only for ironic effect, but deep in the bayou - but somewhere within hearing distance of the interstate, that guy in a full suit of "shaggy" cammo will still be searching, just like the soldiers who held out in on pacific islands - unaware that the war was over.
At some point you will be able to tell the "belivers" from the non belivers because belivers look like this, and all the other birders will revert back to something more like this.
We've already been told by Bobby Harrison that there are probably too many people searching the woods. Add them to the hunters and kayakers in the area and the bird is probably just holed up somewhere until all the fuss dies down.
I think it best to defer to experts, such as Bobby, in all things. So maybe the esteemed and esteemable Dr Fitzpatrick should just call off the search for a while. Give the tramautized bird a rest.
The TB
Oh, I put me finger in a woodpecker's hole and the woodpecker said...
God Bless My Soul !
Take it out !
Take it out !
Wiggle it about, remove it !
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"I doubt that you really know much about this area. For starters, duck season generally ends in late January. Second, you can't "run up and down the bayou" most of Bayou DeView. The channel isn't big enough."
Do you want to put your money where you mouth is? I was born & raised right in the area discribed. Own property that joins one of the Managed Woodpecker Areas and family sold some of that land which is inside one of the units to the Nature Conservacy several years ago at that, we have hunted the area in question all my life and I most like know things about the area that it would take several lifetimes to learn.
All I can tell you is that in 50 years of going where you say you cannot go because the channel is not big enough and for my father doing the same in his 88 years, and his father before him all of his life of going up & down that non-navitable channel & spending a lifetime in area we know nothing about, but there is one thing for sure:
Several generations of locals or no one else that cannot get down that channel that does so or none of us that don't have any expert knowlage of this area I speak of have never & I said never seen a bird of anykind that fits the discription of the bird in question that is said to be there!
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"For starters, duck season generally ends in late January."
The below quote was taken right off of Cornell's web site concerning the discovery of the said bird. Waterfowl season ended 11 days before the sighting was reported to have been made. So either the bird in question showed up on the location sometime within the 11 days or he was here all along with inside this non-bird friendly enviroment. And like was stated before, reportly discovered within a short distance from a major highway, right below the public ramp used by all these people 11 days before, just North of Interstate 40 in an area I know nothing about!
Quote off of Cornell University website on dicovery of Ivorybill Woodpecker:
"While kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge on Feb. 11, 2004, Gene Sparling of Hot Springs, Ark., saw an unusually large, red-crested woodpecker fly toward him and land on a nearby tree. He noticed several field marks suggesting the bird was an Ivory-billed Woodpecker."
wait a cotton pickin minute ... if gene sparling wasn't dressed like this then I don't think there is any way he could have gotten close to this bird. This bird is the supreme skulker afterall - unless you dress up in a full realtree tm shaggy suit and keep still you aren't going to see this bird ... at this point we can at least say this for sure.
I don't what this local guy says he is ... unless he is willing to send tom nelson a picture of him "running up and down bayou de view" (preferable in a shaggy suit - I'm not buying into it.
There are too many pranksters sitting on couches in the snooty north east to believe that there is a real Bayou de view resident on this blog.
Extra ordinary claims require extra ordinary proof.
I went duck hunting once. Cold as sh_t.
Now I just dove hunt. (when not birding that is)
signed,
The TB
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