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We practiced on Pileateds every chance we got, and among the three of us we captured several hundred clearly identifiable images of that species...
That's interesting. I seem to remember somebody saying (can't remember who) that there weren't that many Pileateds in the area, and that made the evidence all the more persuasive for Ivory-billed. Sounds like the place is crawling with Pileateds.
Looking at the photo essay, the vast majority of those trees don't look particularly big.
Well, we know that a 4 second look at a fleeing Pileated = an IBWP
How long before these fools realize that the whole reason for the Tanner expeditition was to film, for the sake of posterity, the last of the IBWP's?
It was fairly obvious to the experts of the first third or so of the 20th Century, that had access to populations of IBWP's and their diminishing habitat, that they would be the last to see the bird in the wild.
I'm very sad that the Carolina Parakeet, Passenger Pigeon, Heath Hen, Labrador Duck, and Maryland Darter are extinct. We are all saddened by such losses. Unfortunately the IBWP belongs to the ages past now.
Let's honor the memory of our lost plants and animals by putting resources where they are most needed: with the living species of flora and fauna that STILL exist but are endangered or threatened.
The honorable path has not yet been lost. It is important to not forsake it out of false pride. There are no more IBWP's. Mourn them, remember the tragedy that led to the loss, and try to keep such events from happening again.
The pathetic and riduculous dogma spat forth by the "true believers" indicates a need to "prove" that the impossible is true. I am stunned by the constant, and very foolish, argument that one cannot "prove" that a creature is extinct. Obviously the scientific method has been bastardized since my grad school days.
Faith based conservationism will make a mockery of conservationism based on reason and the scientific method. Politicians who control the purse strings and coffers toward the monies needed to protect the flora and fauna of the United States will leap upon the foolishness of the IBWP scandal to wreck havoc upon true conservation efforts.
There is still time for many in academia to cast off the mantle of indifference and take a stand. If not, a grave blow will be dealt to the role of science in conservationism. The two camps have polarized. One camp falls back on the ardor of the religious zealot. The other upon the need for reasonable proof. Those of us in the latter camp believed that rational thought would eventually prevail. To date it has not. Let us not let the snake oil business take root in the arena of conservationism.
Even the cameras are decked out in the latest camo patterns from Mossy Oak and Realtree. Maybe that's the problem. When I look back at the 1937 National Geographic article "Hunting with a Microphone..." by Arthur Allen, Jim Tanner and the crew are in what appear to be dungaress and canvas shirts. Fortunatley these researchers didn't see the nned to camo the parabolic reflector, otherwise we wouldn't have the songs & sounds of this LOST species of the southern forests.
Dennis - Augusta, Georgia
It's interesting to note that the
independent searchers on the
Choctawhatchee comment that the
trees along the river are smaller than they expected.
In contrast, the Auburn group
uses terms such as "huge" and
"mature" and even "old growth" to describe the trees. What gives?
Are they searching different areas? Are there two Choctawhatchee Rivers in the panhandle of Forida? Why have the hundreds of independent searchers failed to cross paths with the elusive ghost bird while the Auburn people seem to glimpse them on a fairly regular basis? Does this make sense to anyone?
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