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Wow. Announced by the Secretary of the Interior and all. I had to look it up to see if it was a joke. Sounds mighty familiar, doesn't it?
Cyberthrush would have said "be patient" at the time, but we now know they haven't documented that population of birds in the last 40 YEARS despite field verification of "several pairs." (I guess Auburn beat them with "nine pairs.")
Once this has been thoroughly debunked it will spring up again a few years down the line. Since it's only in the mind of people, it doesn't rely on reality.
I just stumbled on this comment by Mark Vanderven from July 1 on Bill Pulliam's site:
I heard many kent-like sounds while paddling and hiking for five months in the Choctawhatchee system. Almost invariably, those were windy days. Most of the time I was able to find the source, and they were always trees. It was quite remarkable how similar some of the tree squeaks were to the recorded kents from the IBWO plush toy we had in camp.
Thanks for the link to the fawn info. It may well be, then, that some of the kents picked up by the ARUs were, indeed, fawn bleats. But if you're looking for an answer to the question, "What are those reporting kents hearing?," I can tell you with quite a bit of confidence that in most cases in the Choctawhatchee they are hearing squeaky trees.
Here's one intellectually honest person willing to discuss all the things he thought sounded like kent calls, but could be confirmed as non-birds.
Actually, the whole thread of comments about kent calls on Bill's site is interesting.
Unlike the current searchers, John Dennis would know what an Ivory-bill looks like - he photographed one in Cuba in 1948.
Oddly, I heard some plaintive fawn bleating yesterday, when my dogs cornered one unlucky enough to jump a fence. So THAT'S what an IBWO sounds like. I'll remember that.
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