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I've just got word that Hillcrow et al. have gotten the prize. An 81/2 X 10 glossy photo.
It will be unveiled at the next fundraising meeting.
But first it's being forwarded to Sibley for official verification. If this checks out, it will then go to Fitzcrow for his blessing....well really...just to say nah nah a nah nah...we got the photo...nah nah a nah nah...
Then if it can be blasted out of Fitzcrow's hand, it will go to the Feds to firm up support for the captive breeding and cloning program that will be needed to get the two finally located remaining males to be able to breed.
If all this goes well, then and only then will the public be able to view the photo. At the fundraising event, of course. $20 a pop.
Will send more when I get it.
From the article:
His personal best golden egg appeared when he wasn't even looking: a rare, black-throated gray warbler, perched in a tree outside his Grand Rapids office.
"This bird is so rare, it's only been seen five times in history. For this bird to have landed in the one tree in the world where I could've seen it seems so unlikely," he said.
With a track record for finding rare birds like that, I'm amazed he didn't find the Woodpecker.
Incidentally, someone should let birders in the western US know that the Black-throated Gray is so rare, we really should start documenting it better. Maybe someone will get sighting #6!
"the captive breeding and cloning program that will be needed to get the two finally located remaining males to be able to breed"
Thats OK, but please don't create a Fishcrow X Cyberthrush hybrid. If their gene pools were recombined, redisovery of IBWO would be inevitable, and we skeptics sure would hate to be proven wrong.
Caleb Putnam blogs about his birding adventures here.
Tell-tale signs like a bit of egg??? Just try looking on the faces of the CLO....
Came across this thread in a google search, and wanted to clarify the comments about the Black-throated Gray in that article. The reporter mangled my quote (this has happened to me almost every time I've contributed to an article) and he did not offer the chance to proof the article. I said it had been found five times **in Michigan**, something you can verify at the Michigan Bird Records Committee searchable database at http://www.michiganaudubon.org/mbrc/search.html Punch in part of the common name to get the output.
Sincerely,
Caleb Putnam
larus10@hotmail.com
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