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Do you dare label these well-respected birders and authors "believers"? Note their comment: "At one point in the Choctawatchee woods, we saw a Pileated Woodpecker fly in front of us, giving a side view. We had a one second view through the trees, but it was enough for us to see the red crest and black trailing edge on the upper and lower wings as it flew." Come on, where's the scoffing we expect to see here on making calls based on such brief glimpses?
where's the scoffing we expect to see here on making calls based on such brief glimpses?
Nobody really cares if somebody misidentifies a bluejay as a pileated in a place where both birds are known to exist, just as nobody cares if I say I saw a Honda on the way to work, but it was really a Toyota.
Figure it out.
From the first link:
The back of the form had diagrams showing how to tell an Ivory-billed Woodpecker from a Pileated Woodpecker. The form was to be sent to Cornell.
... how convenient.
Thank god they didn't see an IBWO.
The image of the lone unfunded observer in a kayak made a great story for the most recent "rediscovery" but two mass marketers of bird paraphernalia walking around the woods with their Corgi would not sell to the NPR crowd since it sounds too much like the people in the NPR crowd.
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