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And there are speakers, including Bobby Harrison, a key member of the Ivory-billed Recovery Team. He'll discuss the elusive bird that he believes lives in the Big Woods area of Eastern Arkansas.
"My feeling is the bird avoids man at all costs," said Harrison, who has spotted ivory-bills on five occasions.
Although no photos or videos of the birds were made by searchers last winter, Harrison said there were several undocumented sightings by trained observers and at least three credible sightings by people living in the area. Recordings of the bird's unique rapping on trees also indicate its presence.
Last winter Harrison spent most of his time in the woods putting up cameras aimed at likely nesting spots and taking them down.
This winter he plans on placing four animated decoys -- two males and two females -- on trees in hopes of attracting real ivory-bills. Cameras will be trained on the decoys.
Harrison animated the wood decoys with the help of students at a technical high school in Huntsville, Ala., where he lives and teaches at Oakwood College. He figures each one took 60 hours to complete.
"I've love to see one of them ripped apart by an ivory-bill," he said.
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I hope if IBWOs are found elsewhere, Harrison will keep his country ass away and confine his silly little experiments to Arkansas.
"I've love to see one of them ripped apart by an ivory-bill,"
As compared to seeing the careers of those involved being ripped apart by an Ivory-billed?
Whatever happened to Sparling? He was, afterall, the first to see. The last we heard was he got that silly "Explorer's" award and credit on Fitzcrow's paper. Then he falls off the face of the earth.
Go figure.
Sparling
The darling
Was first
To thirst
For grail
So frail
He conceived
And believed
views fleeting
Heart beating
His nursery
Made history
Oh.My.Lord God Bird.
"My feeling is the bird avoids man at all costs," said Harrison, who has spotted ivory-bills on five occasions.
But it's spotted all the time by "trained observers" ...
Harrison said there were several undocumented sightings by trained observers and at least three credible sightings by people living in the area.
So Harrison is full of crap. What he really means is that the IBWO avoids *video cameras* at all costs. Remarkably, the bird has evolved the cognitive ability to understand when images of it are about to be recorded! This discovery itself is worth a Science paper, I think.
Recordings of the bird's unique rapping on trees also indicate its presence.
More crap: the rapping sounds made by IBWOs are not "unique" sounds.
Harrison animated the wood decoys with the help of students at a technical high school in Huntsville, Ala.,
Someone call Peter Jackson! He pays a lot more for those fake CGI graphics.
"I've love to see one of them ripped apart by an ivory-bill," he said.
I'd love to rip one of them apart myself, put the pieces in a paper bag filled with pileated woodpecker poop, put it on Harrison's doorstep, light it on fire, then ring his doorbell.
Good people of the skeptic blog you have no idea of what kind of "perfect storm" this is ... Madge Lindsey, is among the originators of "bird tourism will save your town" promotions ... and the dame of the GTCBT ...
I shit you not that I was once in a meeting in Texas where Madge Lindsey said that "bird tourism would oneday be bigger than oil" to the state of Texas.
These are people so out of touch with reality that they are living out there dotage in Holly Springs MS ... sucking the trust bequest of some loonier than though southern bell and suggesting that "raising awareness" is like saving old growth.
No my friends you can't get a battier duo than Madge and Mr. Ghillie himself.
It just doesn't get any better than this. What I wouldn't give to be in Holly Springs MS. for the after talk dinner ...
Imagine leaving Austin for the Rio Grande Valley, to embark on creating a "mega birding center" with one green jay and a chachalaca as your draw, only to end up in Holly Springs, with 20 migrant hummers.
Perhaps God does have a sense of humor after all. Maybe Harrison will get a retirement gig as the naturalist in Churchill Man. or something ... and have a real polar bear shred him and his anamitronic decoys in the sequal to Grizzly man II. ...
you just can't make this shit up.
Madge and Bobby Harrison together priceless, clueless and spinning for all it is worth.
A do not miss event if ever there was one.
"... the bird avoids man at all costs" and therefore willed itself into extinction in 1944.
Anonymous wrote, "I shit you not that I was once in a meeting in Texas where Madge Lindsey said that "bird tourism would oneday be bigger than oil" to the state of Texas."
Should we believe that oil reserves will outlast the birds in Texas?
"These are people so out of touch with reality that they are living out there dotage in Holly Springs MS ... sucking the trust bequest of some loonier than though southern bell and suggesting that "raising awareness" is like saving old growth."
Not sure who you are fellow, but good to see another clued in Auduboner on the blog here. Wow. You nailed it.
Bobby Harrison....Not Human. That is blasphemy against Aliens everywhere.
Kneep......kneep.....
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