Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Ivory-bill thread at Birder's World

Here.

Here's some free advice for all of the fine organizations listed as part of the Big Woods Conservation Partnership--when people with handles like "chickadeelover" start posting stuff like this:
in my opinion it IS extinct...
it's time for you to very quietly delete the ivorybill.org website.

If you'd prefer to back away from the "rediscovery" in smaller stages, I'd recommend taking down the "found!" banner first.

Update: For some reason, I just stumbled across this Cincinnatti Birds thread from the spring of 2005. Note this post:
The immediate area where the bird was seen is now off limits for the time being. Duck hunters aren't much of a threat, the bird is elusive compared to mallards, and there's no indication Duck hunters are shooting big woodpeckers, as evidenced by the more than ample supplies of Pileated woodpeckers down there.

Regarding the video, the amount of work done analyzing the video is staggering. There's a lot of documentation regarding the analyzation that's not in the Science article. The use of lifelike models with movable wings was definitive. I am sure more of that stuff will be available when they get it prepared for the web. The articles were hastily released a month early due to a leak at the USFWS. The slated release date was May 18, and because of the leak, the articles aren't as solid as they would have been.

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