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This has the smell of urban legend.
But the theory goes is that all the IBWO's are where no one goes.
When you can't find 'em it's because they wander so much. Or because they nest on private lands with no disturbance. The searchers have never stumbled on a nesting area, there's only a few of these. The only see far wandering IBWOs, like Tyler seeing his in December before the nesting season. Then they bumble around these areas where there are no nests. But these are part of the extended range, not the nesting range. But then things get a little weirder after that:
It helps if you are a hunter or some kind of person presumably closer to the land, like a Native American.
White northern liberals, the theory goes, can't find these birds because they are making such a ruckus. Part of the mystical nature of this bird is that only
plainfolk or natives can ever see them.
Besides, when they get scared, they fly 3-5 miles away
up some narrow linear woodland and don't come back. No curiosity either... they just fly and never double-back like Pileateds do.
You hear them double-knocking and kenting all around you but they're harder to see than a Cerulean Warbler's nest.
And IBWOs make Warblers look like
statues, apparently.
Phew the explanations are exhausting. I can understand the skeptics even if I'm not a total skeptic. The extinction theory is less far-fetched than the reasons given for why the bird is so hard to photograph. It's clean and
simple and very highly plausible.
Pileated's however, supposedly taste bad when they eat carpenter ants... but I better ask me old pappy ifn' that be true.
So are we soon going to see dietitians from Cornell urging people to go on the IBWO Diet?
"Your eyes will tear up with every bite".
Of course finding out that the Lord God Bird tastes like chicken may further decrease its status - though CLO et al. have done a pretty thorough job of that.
"because they nest on private lands"
Undeserved congrats to southern private landowners for their supposedly fine stewardship of a bird supposedly dimissed and therefore neglected by the feds is one of the many annoying aspects of the rediscovery.
"only plainfolk or natives can ever see them'
especially those who lack book learning and can't spell.
"they just fly and never double-back like Pileateds do"
and never remain in plain view for extended periods and then fly to an even more obvious perch on the near side of the next tree like a real Campephilus.
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