Fitzpatrick recently saw a bird species believed to be long extinct. Fitzpatrick, the executive director of the Carpenter St. Croix Valley Nature Center in Hastings, Minnesota, was on a recent research expedition on the Pearl River between Louisiana and Mississippi when he made a confirmed sighting of the ivory billed woodpecker. He is one of only seven people who together made the first confirmed sighting of the rare bird since before the end of World War Two.
"How the bird survived is the $64,000 question," he said. "The speculation is that while all of the bird's habitat was being removed, parts of the ivory billed woodpecker population were driven into the heart of the big thickets in Texas. There, away from people, it could have been breeding for decades. The last confirmed sighting before the trip I went on was in 1944."
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In for a penny, in for a pound!
Wow Tom, Here we go again !
Isn't it amazing how the Grail only appears before the chosen ones. I ran across a poem the other day which allegedly provides some type of insight to Van Remsen. The author is reportedly one Wolfram von Dittohead. The name of the poem is:
SECRETS
Oink & Squeal
Is this all for real?
It sounds like Cornell
Got a heck of a deal.
Me, I've never seen such a fuss
Over evidence to make one cuss
Somebody should load up the ivory tower,
And send'em away in a microbus.
Wing flap rates
Ghuille suit mates
Maybe all these people should get a life,
And stop causing the taxpayers so much strife.
End all this arguing over a blurred picture,
If you ain't gotta clear shot
Then you ain't got squat
It's time for Cornell to get off the pot.
Now Uncle Sam is spending millions
Planting trees in ag fields up to Indiana,
Is anybody saving the cypress tupelo,
Way down in south Louisiana.
Lawdy Miss Clawdy Oh what a mess
Things aint been too rosey
For the ivory tower's best
Did J Burton Angelle believe Messr. Bonaposey?
Now Lowery and ole man Niney knew
And we ain't talking bout Bayou Deview,
Nor an unidentified dog trainer's duckhole debut,
Who is Mr. Mott in The Purple Pew?
Did Lowery cut a deal
To view the birds he would not squeal,
A 15 year old kid cried foul,
That's when the landowners threw in the towel.
Oh they had to keep it quiet
To keep the feds from starting a bunny hugger riot,
Oh the deep dark secret never to tell,
On our nation's 200th birthday the big timber fell.
You see in their minds there was too much as stake,
So they leveled the stronghold at a place called Dead Lake,
In the end it Secrets that nailed the coffin,
On our ivorybill friends we used to see often.
Now the question before us is should we despair,
Or spend our time searching for another secret lair,
Is this the story's end or is there a flicker of light,
Deep in the Louisiana Swamp on a pitch black Cajun night?
Bona Ditto
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Cyberthrush doubts IBWO survival in the Big Thicket of Texas but is open to the far less plausible possibility of their existence in South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. So he's a skeptic too in his own bizarre way.
"How the bird survived is the $64,000 question," he said.
Let's just call it a "miracle" and focus our resources on saving the small populations that some professors believe must exist!
(grabs barf bag and fills it to the rim)
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