Wednesday, January 10, 2007

More detail on the sighting that "revived the woodpecker hunt?"

"Kipster", who identifies himself as the city planner for McCrory (AR), has posted a claim of a female IBWO sighting here. Note that his IBWO had white wing tips, and it seemed to do a lot of gliding.

Kipster's story sounds a lot like the one in that highly-publicized AP story last month.

I wonder if Kipster is actually Kip Davis, the city planner for McCrory (AR), one of the two men claiming the female IBWO sighting in the AP story. Note that Cornell is currently featuring the Kip Davis sighting here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I quote the AP story with my bold:

"Kip Davis and Jay Robison saw what they believed was an ivory-billed woodpecker on Thursday, one of thousands of reported sightings piling up as leaves in an east Arkansas swamp drift down."

But not one good photo for 60 years. The Bigfoot analogy is sooooooo appropriate.

Anonymous said...

"It was an awsome site."

"I have had the opportunity to go back to the site with members of the Autabon Society, and Cronell."

There continues to be a strong correlation between IBWO sightings and illiteracy

Anonymous said...

You don't have to be literate to study IBWOlogy, you just have to have a vivid imagination and a "can-do" attitude. The truth is out there....