To Challenge Extinction: The Ivory Billed Woodpecker Updated Story, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 27.2. Sadly, it looks like the future Arkansas State University mascot will not an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
Hear and see the story of Jim Fitzpatrick’s involvement in this research and his chance sighting of this illusive bird. Pictures, sounds, videos and humor will guide guests through six years of investigations, update on the current and future of this project and challenge guests on their future participation in this ongoing saga about challenging extinction.
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On February 27, 2004 at about 12:30pm I got a phone call from my husband, a long time birder. He was sobbing as he said, “Norma, I saw it” with a quivering voice. I knew exactly what he was talking about. My own knees felt like jelly and my head felt faint. I had to sit down. My students looked at me and asked me “Mrs. H. is everything OK?” He what happened.
Bobby, would not be weeping over seeing a pileated woodpecker, after all his research he knew what he had seen. This is all happened before Cornell, before the Nature Conservancy, before the Fish & Wildlife, before there were ‘naysayers,’ and before the ‘big announcement’ by the US Department of the Interior on April 28, 2005.
Bobby had been enamored with the ivory-billed woodpecker since he was a teenager. And for over 33 years he has spent time in serious search, research and following leads. It was a lifetime quest. News of him weeping attributed him the nick-name “sobbin’ Bob” (see url: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_7_114/ai_n15379675).
Bobby has seen an ivory-bill a total of 6 times, 5 individual birds in 2004 and 2 flying together in 2005.
Combining forces, Bobby Harrison and Tim Gallagher, had been following leads for several years. Then on February 27, 2004, they sighted the IBWO together in Bayou de View, Arkansas. This was the first time that 2 qualified searchers saw an ivory-bill at the same time in over 60 years.
Bobby and others have now established the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Foundation, a 501(c)3, a nonprofit organization, whose mission is the continued search: to locate, document photographically, study, protect ivory-bills and to educate the general public.
On February 23, 2008 the Foundation will host its Second Annual Celebration Gala Weekend. Dr. Jerry Jackson, a noted expert on Ivory-billed Woodpeckers will be the keynote speaker. Bobby Harrison and Tim Gallagher will MC the event. In a special session on ‘How to conduct a Low Impact Search for Ivory-bills’ Bobby will show his unpublished video that he took on September 4th, 2004. Detailed information about the event is available on web site (www.ibwfound.org).
Norma
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