Ooo...! 'n hey agin! Look at 30D (Like an ivory-billed woodpecker), RARE -- “Extinct” is not “rare” and the “Lord God” bird (Compephilus principalis) has not been proven to be “rare” (as in “hen’s teeth”, well maybe!) but more likely “extinct” (as in “T-Rex”); however, as the article states “Who knows? I personally can't tell a parakeet from a vulture.”2. More discussion of plumage abnormalities is on a Birdforum thread here.
A Tim Allwood post on the "wariness" hypothesis is here.
3. A Flickr photo group called "Campephilus Woodpeckers" is here.
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The Birdforum poster drew almost exactly what he saw (if it's the same bird). The picture shows an aberrant pileated.
The Birdforum poster drew almost exactly what he saw
What could go wrong here?
Indeed. And the observer never claimed to have seen an Ivory Bill, just a large Woodpecker with white on the outer edge of its wings.
It was the Ivory-bill bandwagon that got all het up about the record. I wonder what its brothers and sisters look like? J.Turner
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