LABIRD: Baton Rouge Audubon Society is sponsoring a talk ("Ivory-billed Woodpecker Update") by Jon Andrew, chair of the Steering Committee of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Recovery Team (and Chief of the NWR system in SE USA), on 20 Sep. at 7 PM at LSU's Hilltop Arboretum. General public welcomed.I'd like to find out what Andrew says. If you attend this talk, please drop me an email (or submit a comment).
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If the Ivory-billed is extinct at last
Did it happen in the distant past?
Or was it seen in 2004?
And will it be seen any more?
This is more philosophy
Than it is ornithology
But I think a vivid mind
Can see one of any kind
And maybe that’s just the answer
A Believer’s mind is an enhancer
Able to see and believe the improbable
And the Skeptic’s filters out the impossible
Is this just evolution’s diabolical game?
Nature’s way to stoke the flame?
I think that I shall never see,
an Ivory-billed up in a tree.
An Ivory-bill whose body's pressed
Against a dead tree's scratchy breast.
A bird that looked on juicy grubs
and snatched them with her barby tongue
A bird that can't be seen in summer
whose nest cannot be found, oh bummer.
Who lives where no snow has lain.
She's only seen by those quite lame.
Poems are made by fools like me,
but the IBWO, only stringers see.
apologies to Joyce Kilmer
Can any of the professsional birdwatchers here help me out?
I was recently vacationing on Mauritius and while hunting for mushrooms there ran into a small colony of very interesting and amusing birds. They didn't fly away (and I doubt they could have) but were very interested in the snacks my husband and I were carrying.
I quickly sketched one of the birds. Here is a link to my drawing:
http://tinyurl.com/hv63z
Is this bird rare?
Your Skeptics just relax.
I suspect that Mr. Andrew is just stopping off in Baton Rouge to give a talk after having spent the previous week in Florida looking at those 9 pairs of IBWOs that Cyberthrush is talking about.
Getting the most out of his federal travel budget. I suspect.
The carpinterio must say that that was nice post.
good to see our public servants thinking about their budgets.
in light of the news out of interior today this is quite a relief ... since the wording on those Gulf leases was so sloppy
Laurie -- that looks like the same species photgraphed at numerous locations in Duluth! Check the postings here for 31 March of this year. CLO has video of the bird in flight, but hasn't yet released the wing-flap frequency.
I'm wondering if Remsen will attend- to give moral support and/or to intimidate potential hecklers??? Maybe it will be like a Bush town hall meeting- only TB's allowed.......
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