Check out the wording of this excerpt:
The latest possibility that this species long thought dead actually isn't was first raised appeared in February of 2004, when a kayaker reported spotting the woodpecker along the Cache River in Arkansas.Some information on lidar is here.
Update: Here is another version of this story. This version contains the following sentence near the top (the bold font is not mine):
Unlike its more famous cartoon cousin Woody the Woodpecker, the ivory-billed woodpecker is thought to be extinct, or so most experts have believed for over half a century.
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I hate to bring this up again, but is www.fishcrow.com a practical joke, a prank upon the world?
Just asking because I don’t hear anything in the sound file at,
Fishcrow’s double rap
I even put the sound file in cool edit. There is nothing there but noise.
Am I the only one foolish enough to fall for this joke? Just asking.
I can hear it but to me it REALLY sounds like bopping two coconuts together. Perhaps someone was searching for the real Holy Grail nearby, and couldn't afford horses.
(For some reason, I'm going to guess that many of you will get the reference.)
I hate to bring this up again, but is www.fishcrow.com a practical joke, a prank upon the world?
We here had all agreed to keep this secret, but I feel sorry for you. I'll probably get in trouble for telling you this, but yes, it is in fact a practical joke being played on you. Everyone else knew about it. We just wanted to see how long you'd keep on believing it. Feel stupid now?
"We just wanted to see how long you'd keep on believing it."
Ah ha!!! I knew it. Finally, someone admitted that it is a practical joke.
I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.
Now, does anyone know this Fishcrow guy? What's he like in person? I like a good practical joker.
I didn't hear anything. So I put it in cool edit and I played it at 8000 samples/sec and I put it in loop play.
(But at least I heard it. Maybe it's a PC/Mac thing.)
Oh my god, it sounds just like a heartbeat. da dump....da dump...
Could Fishcrow have recorded his own heartbeat?
Or if it is a practical joke, then he could have gone to the closest double rap that he knows, his heartbeat.
I think I have solved it. What do you folks think?
What is the sound of one coconut bopping?
I can hear Monty Python discussing IBWO.
I hate to bring this up again, but is www.fishcrow.com a practical joke, a prank upon the world?
Actually, he had a "reputation" in several states before the whole Pearl River IBWO thing. Nobody who knew this reputation is shocked. Hope that puts your mind at ease.
Ouch! Things are getting a bit testy over at BirdForum . Looks like Fishcrow (a.k.a. cinclodes) has gone silent. Follow from the page above to the end. Looks like the skeptics are a growing force over there.
The Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor contains lasers that send pulses of energy to the Earth's surface. Photons of light from the lasers bounce off leaves, branches and the ground and reflect back to the instrument. By analyzing these returned signals, scientists receive a direct measurement of the height of the forest's leaf covered canopy, the ground level below and everything in between.
IBWO's with frickin laser beams on their frickin heads.
Well,
I took your bait and went to Birdforum. The land where they still think you are an idiot if you don't believe that 100's of IBWOs inhabit the Southeast.
Fishcrow (cinclodes) is getting quite testy. Nobody has disproved his case and then we skeptics disappear when he proves his case once again.
I suggest that Birdforum hook up with Hezbollah to share viewpoints, belief, and ideology.
Tom that is not an Iraq war/IBWO analogy.
Sheesh, it doesn't even appear above the noise in the Cool Edit display.
"At fool speed". I like that, Tom Archdeacon.
If you can't hear the sound in Fishcrow's audio then you obviously have your head up your arse, however it is pretty clearly different from recordings of Campephilus woodpeckers and the recordings Cornell made in Az. It sounds like car noise to me. If it is a heart beat then I think Fishcrow is in need of medical attention - but then we knew that already.
"If you can't hear the sound in Fishcrow's audio then you obviously have your head up your arse.."
I don't think it could be that. Double knocks are made up of low frequencies and they travel well through objects such as walls and bodies and arses.
I'm doing a test on friends right now (heads firmly out of arses only). So far, I have 2 car noise, 1 heartbeat (me), 2 cars-hitting-bump-in-road, and no coconuts.
Research is fun.
I couldn't help but notice that this NASA endeavor will employ LVIS (the laser) to search for Elvis (the woodpecker) with the help of Woody (the person). How spooky! See link at:
http://birdstuff.blogspot.com/2006/08/lvis-to-search-for-elvis-with-woodys.html
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