If we are right about ivorybills living along the Choctawhatchee River, with a larger search crew, we'll locate roosts, nests, and get plenty of photos and videos of the birds.
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Presumably they're not right about the Ivory-bills along the Choctawhatchee then.....
Meanwhile, over at birdforum.net, the Florida IBWO legend that is tmguy seems to be revving up for another apoplectic fit;
Not yet, but I can go see the birds any time I wish while you play on "the deen" and watch ruggers and get drunk. It seems the closer one is to a third world country the more rude and uncivili"s"ed one gets. You need to do better on your insult next time scotty. Bill
This, from the civilised individual who called Illinois Birder a paedophile during one heated exchange on BirdForum.
If we are right about ivorybills living along the Choctawhatchee River, with a larger search crew, we'll locate roosts, nests, and get plenty of photos and videos of the birds.
So when is Hill's expiration date for determining whether or not they are "right about ivorybills (sic) living along the Choctawhatchee River?" One more field season? Two? Seventeen?
It seems the closer one is to a third world country the more rude and uncivili"s"ed one gets.
This from a guy in Florida, not so far away from such thriving first world countries as Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Mexico is pretty close, and one of the poorest parts at that, though I'm not sure it's really third world. Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador aren't too too far, maybe twice the length of Floria away.
What's the nearest third world country to Britain?
"the closer one is to a third world country"
As I've said before, only in a backwards third-world country with an ignorant populace and lacking a critical mass of competent birders could viable populations of a noisy, diurnal, gregarious, non-aquatic, unwary, very easily identified, black-white-red-and-ivory, giant woodpecker persist undetected for more than six decades.
France
"though I'm not sure it's really third world. Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador"
The Campephilus in these countries are documented all the time. Evidently their societies are far more advanced, or at least attract more advanced tourists and ornithologists, than our South.
The Campephilus in these countries are documented all the time. Evidently their societies are far more advanced, or at least attract more advanced tourists and ornithologists, than our South.
That really hurts. But it is true that we southerners cannot find IBWOs. Although we have looked diligently for decades.
Actually, we get a lot of visiting advanced Yankee birders down here. They can't find them either.
"we get a lot of visiting advanced Yankee birders down here. They can't find them either"
...but now they have robots
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