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Patrick Coin makes a great case against mythical wariness in this BirdForum post.
As stated in my previous post extant Campephilus are not wary and are easily approached. They can be consistently detected from long distances by sound, and extended close views are not only possible but probable. If the birds do flush they rarely fly very far and can therefore be relocated with little trouble. I forgot to mention in my previous post that all of my extended views of five Campephilus species have been obtained while wearing normal birding clothes. There is no need to wear camo when birding!
Do the TBs think that IBWOs have recently been hunted? Are there really large numbers of IBWO-killing felons roaming the South?
If many IBWO have been hunted in the last 60 years wouldn't some of these rednecks have kept and bragged about the evidence? A jaguar killed by a ranchers in Arizona was paraded around town.
If the IBWO has not been hunted in large numbers than there is no mechanism to explain their wariness.
If Lammertinck and the other CLO "large woodpecker experts" had good sense and integrity they would publicly denounce mischaracterizations of IBWO behavior and would admit that real Campephilus are highly conspicuous birds that are easy to locate without recourse to bark scaling, nest holes, robots etc. and very easy to observe at length and photograph.
If the CLO and Auburn teams cannot locate, identify, and document large woodpeckers imagine the trouble they would have working on truly difficult birds like cloud forest tapaculos!
I wonder if there is anyone familiar with extant Campephilus and not involved with the search efforts who finds the IBWO "rediscovery" at all credible?
I agree with Patrick Coin that the IBWO likely made extensive use of upland pine forests. Woodpeckers, in general, are not waterbirds, and the notion that they live only in flooded swamps and must be stalked by boat was absurd. Bottomland swamp forests are, however, a good place to misidentify wood ducks and anhingas as woodpeckers.
They appear to be on an eating tour of the South.
Hillcrow has a new update. His rhetorical energy seems to be declining.
When I read the part about their having dinner with Mike Collins I was thinking that I wish I had been a fly on the wall. But then I realized that with their id credentials this group would likely have identified a fly as an IBWO.
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