They're gonna 'prove' that thing's an IBWO if it's the last thing they do!!!
"Animating the Ivory-billed Woodpecker", Jeffrey Wang, Master of Science thesis (PDF, 5.6 Meg) Cornell Graduate School, 2007
From the abstract:
"The proposed rediscovery of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, while celebrated by some ornithologists, was debated by others. Central to the argument is the interpretation of a fuzzy video depicting a large black and white bird taking flight. This thesis describes the creation of a physiologically-accurate animation of a flying Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in hope that it can be one day used to verify the rediscovery."
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I just want to be the first to say Wangcrow. "Wangcrow".
I gotta' back Jeffrey Wang on this one. He said it might help ID the bird in the video (probably not understanding that some of the best birders in the country have already identified it as a Pileated). He didn't jump to any ridiculous conclusions.
I think to earn the suffix "crow", you need to make one of those 2 second IDs that are so popular today. Or maybe make a positive ID using crap evidence. At the very least, you'd have to promote crap as "interesting" in the first place (e.g. holes, bark adhesion, sightings with virtually no details).
Fishcrow, Fitzcrow, and Hillcrow all fit these criteria pretty well, though I don't think Fitzcrow claims to have personally seen the bird.
Useless
Just like those wooden models Bobby Harrison made.
Might as well look at Woody Woodpecker cartoons.
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