This is obviously just meant to be a cute story but it has obvious IBWO parallels.Update--The same emailer now writes:
Wanted you to know that the demented people at fark.com had some fun with this angel story at this link, and perhaps the most relevant ornithological link from that site is here.
I am just grateful the Ruby-throated Hummingbird is not thought to be extinct.
"I started a pencil sketch," Chandler said of setting out last year to paint the bird. "Then Bobby would be gone sometimes two to three weeks out there doing this search in the swamps. He would come back and he would tell me to change certain things about it.
"He kept telling me it's not like any other bird in the forest. He said it almost has a cartoonish look to it. And the colors are so vibrant on the bird — the black and white and the crest, the red, is very, very vibrant," Chandler said.
"He would come back and he would tell me I needed to make the wings longer, more white on the wings and he would tell me the length of the tail needed to be longer," Chandler said. "It's a very sleek bird. It almost has the appearance that only the wing tips are moving (when it flies) because it is a very powered flight, very, very direct."
This was all over the news today (LA Times, Seattle Times...) (for some reason it was today, not a few weeks ago when it happened). I dug up the original news story, and low-and-behold, if the photo printed with the story is the actual photo, it isn't a Condor.The emailer later emphasized "I hope people are nice to the kid", and I agree.
I don't want people to pick on the little kid, but who the heck told him it was a Condor (it looks like a Great-horned, from what I can see). I think the slippery slope of the shoddy ID of the IBWO is contagious.
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