3. I was driving through the area yesterday and tuned into WAMC just in time to hear your show and I almost drove off the road. My husband, Tim Gallagher, wrote The Grail Bird and obviously he’s spent a bit of time in Arkansas. I was fortunate to spend a week there in January 2005 floating several bayous around Brinkley and it was a thrill. As you pointed out yesteray, it really is a hopeful message and, lord knows, it sure got the birding community all atwitter.More from Dickinson is here.
best,
Rachel Dickinson
Comment by rdickinson — May 10, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
She apparently posted a comment at Ivory-bill Skeptic here:
Rachel Dickinson said...
I certainly appreciate all the time and energy that goes into the drivel that's posted here. At least I get paid for mine. Maybe someone would take all of you seriously if you could rise above the bad poetry and silly, sniping commentary.
1:14 PM, September 26, 2006
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Maybe someone would take all of you seriously
LOL.
It's endlessly amusing to listen to the True Believers play this card.
Rachel needs to be reminded that there is a very very very good reason to take Tom Nelson and the skeptical commenters here seriously: our predictions have been proven correct and Rachel's predictions are proven wrong.
Specifically, the claim that Fitzcrow et al.'s paper was irreproducible garbage because the IBWO is extinct and won't ever be documented stands unchallenged and is indeed confirmed by subsequent (and 60+ years of prior) data.
Rachel and her IBWO-peddling cohorts like Rich Guthrie can't help but be distracted by "bad poetry" and jokes at their expense because without the made-up stories about IBWO sightings, they've got nothing.
I thought I had read every major media piece on this story ... but Dickinson's piece in Audubon is a real treat.
The way she discusses this as an obsession with her husband and bobby, and the rich narrative way she describes how lousy all the fleeting sightings have been - even adding a fact that Bobby and Tim were tired and hungry when they saw the bird and compared notes before they compared notes and the way that Tim went in to sell this sighting to Fitz ...
wow ... this really is the birding story of the century, but not for reasons that Rachel Dickinson would like to have us believe.
Good to know that they are on the trail of the Eskimo Cerlew now ...
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