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There is an overall umbrella organization comprised of researchers, conservationists, woodpecker experts, and ornithologists which is coordinating the search for this majestic bird throughout the southeastern U.S. This "team" meets regularly via conference calls and in-person sessions to hammer out the strategy for the search for definitive proof of the Ivory-bill's existence. Currently, there are teams of scientists and volunteers from this organization working in eight southeastern states - TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, SC, NC, and AR. There is a separate Ivory-billed Recovery Team, composed of many of the same people, whose responsibility it is to plan for the ongoing management of the species if and when its presence is documented.2. According to this BIRDCHAT posting, Jeff Wells was on WMPG (Maine) Community Radio last night discussing the IBWO. If you listened to that show or have further information, please let me know via email or comment.
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The teams are also resourceful - an ornithologist has demonstrated that the distinctive double-rap sound the bird makes can be imitated closely by two drumsticks of a certain thickness. John has a pair.
That's just going to confuse the analysis of remote sound recordings ... along with the sounds of birders banging their heads against brick walls!
Good news! The Texas search is now underway.
Texas search
We long suffering True Believers are about to have our day. Texas always comes through. But the $100,000 of federal monies are apparently not enough to search much beyond March. So please please, all of you that believe, give to the effort. Perhaps send your donation to the IRS on behalf of the Texas search. I think that should do it.
I'm so proud.
Signed,
The True Believer
You know...as a graduate of a second rate southern university, I was taking great solace in the Ivy League doing something stupid.
But you have to hand it to Fitzcrow. The man actually realizes he made a humongus mistake and is laying low and letting Auburn become the story.
Damn...the Ivies are better!
Yes, while at the Cornell Club of Manhatten recently, my fellow ivy grads and I were pondering the question of "if not Ivy then why bother?"
But we concluded that second tier universities do a good job of training "big fish for small ponds" for the southern hinterlands.
(I think that's what we concluded. The scotch is always flowing at the club by early afternoon. haha)
BTW, Cletus is not such a bad name. I have old Harvard friend that named his kid Wharburton Hunter III. What up with Wharburton? Does he think he's Scottish royalty?
....sniff....
The teams are also resourceful - an ornithologist has demonstrated that the distinctive double-rap sound the bird makes can be imitated closely by two drumsticks of a certain thickness. John has a pair.
Thank goodness the person with the drumsticks was a male. If it had been a female the above would have been included in the "America's Funniest IBWO Posts" show.
...two drumsticks of a certain thickness
Hmmm....would that just happen to be two drumsticks of a certain species that has white on the trailing edge?
The teams are also resourceful - an ornithologist has demonstrated that the distinctive double-rap sound the bird makes can be imitated closely by two drumsticks of a certain thickness. John has a pair.
Man, that's funny.
National Geographic has a decent reputation, almost as good as certain blogs in cyberspace :))) With all the high tech searching just now getting underway in 8 states, if no "killer photo/video" is obtained by late April, I think a pretty serious blow will be dealt to all believers.
True, some will say the bird has been hunted unsuccessfully for 60 years, so it clearly is extinct. However, the search has never been as thorough and as "high tech" as what is happening now. Lets see what April brings...
However, the search has never been as thorough and as "high tech" as what is happening now. Lets see what April brings...
And in 2045 we'll send in an army of 5,000 robot drones ... you know, just in case.
Lets see what April brings...
Ahhh, yes, the continous 6 month wait. It's always around the corner. Just another season and the pics will be here. Just a few more months and then the bird will be officially extinct.
How many more months must we wait? Oh, let me guess. Six months, right?
However, the search has never been as thorough and as "high tech" as what is happening now. Lets see what April brings.
You have to admire how the two things that got humans through the Ice Age and WW II - faith and hope - keep playing the dominant role in the IBWO rediscovery quest. Those traits are far too ingrained in the species to disappear now but their ability to blind a large segment of the population shows how just maladaptive they can be.
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