Switching _crows in midstream?

Here.

"in a millisecond she was gone"

Here.

Only 14 more days remaining

...until Bobby Harrison's Fundraising Inaugural Gala.

Note that it still says "Will the critiques me quit-en?" on his website here.

Reviews for Hill's book

Here.

Update: Mike Johnston posted the table of contents here.

More Birdforum fun

1. Herpetologist fangsheath channels Johnnie Cochran here:

This is the last time I'm going to say this. No black pileateds with white secondaries have been reported, let alone documented, from the Big Woods. No pileateds with any plumage anomalies whatsoever have been documented on Bayou DeView. Believe what you like about the sightings. But there is a big difference between what has been reported and what has been distorted.

Maybe his claim hinges on the word "documented", but it seems to seriously conflict with this information.

Note a sentence from fangsheath here:

Not being an avid birder I have certainly learned the value of good field notes, including sketches.

2. Without comment, I offer this information that MMinNY posted on the believer's forum:

Off topic. . .any tips on spotting Great Horned Owls? I've never seen one (in the wild), but I've been hearing them quite regularly pre-dawn.

More links

1. Another update from Diane Deresienski is here.

They've photographed the remains of an armadillo!

2. Notable Birdforum posts are here , here , and here.

Mike Johnston's confused

Here.

Old Van Remsen quotes

Here.

Kyle Gerstner's search blog

Now available here.

Peer-reviewed global cooling--OT

Here.

More cooperative Campephilus

Here.

Don't forget to click to enlarge the photos...

Paul Lehman mentions birding groupthink

Here.

Trapp googles the Ivory-bill

Here.

This is a series of 14 posts--you may want to scroll down to read #1, then scroll up to read them in order.

"the greatest deception in the history of science"-OT

Here.

More Ivory-bill detections!!

Yet another surreal update from Hill is here.

An excerpt:

We’ve had a few more ivorybill detections during the last week. Most notably, on Feb 1 Richard Martin a volunteer from Birmingham, AL heard what sounded to him like kent calls, and he managed to record about 10 putative kent calls with his video recorder. Some of these putative kent calls are faint but several of the nasal notes sound, to my ear, like ivorybill kent calls. They are not squeaking trees (it was a morning with little wind) or typical sounds of any other bird species that we have recorded in these woods. Blue Jays are fairly common in the vicinity of the recording spot, but the recorded sounds do not sound like Blue Jays to me and there are no typical Blue Jay sounds associated with the recorded nasal sounds. These recordings were made too far from any listening station to have been simultaneously recorded. The sound files with these putative kents will be posted later this week on Dan Mennill’s web site.

More photos from Luneau

Here.

I wouldn't be surprised if they contain at least a few six-pixel Ivory-bills.

Remarkably, as of today, Cornell is still officially defending the alleged six-pixel Ivory-bill on their website here.

Update from Mennill

Here.

Mars and global warming-OT

Here (this is part 9 of a 10-part series).

An excerpt:

Climate change is a much, much bigger issue than the public, politicians, and even the most alarmed environmentalists realize. Global warming extends to Mars, where the polar ice cap is shrinking, where deep gullies in the landscape are now laid bare, and where the climate is the warmest it has been in decades or centuries.

"One explanation could be that Mars is just coming out of an ice age," NASA scientist William Feldman speculated after the agency's Mars Odyssey completed its first Martian year of data collection. "In some low-latitude areas, the ice has already dissipated." With each passing year more and more evidence arises of the dramatic changes occurring on the only planet on the solar system, apart from Earth, to give up its climate secrets.

NASA's findings in space come as no surprise to Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov at Saint Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory. Pulkovo -- at the pinnacle of Russia's space-oriented scientific establishment -- is one of the world's best equipped observatories and has been since its founding in 1839. Heading Pulkovo's space research laboratory is Dr. Abdussamatov, one of the world's chief critics of the theory that man-made carbon dioxide emissions create a greenhouse effect, leading to global warming.

"Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians," he told me. "These parallel global warmings -- observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth -- can only be a straightline consequence of the effect of the one same factor: a long-time change in solar irradiance."

If you're interested in the global warming debate, I highly recommend that you read all ten parts of the series (available at the link above).

Another update from the Choc

Here.

An excerpt:

It was another week without any suggestive "detections," though I did find some interesting bark scaling on a Tupelo tree close to camp. A couple of parties in my study area heard and recorded some kent notes that resemble the vocalizations of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, though without a corroborative sighting or photo we can't be sure what the sources of the noises were. One set in particular, however, sounded really interesting, and for the next few days may have tilted me a millimeter or so towards the believing side of the fence of IBWO agnosticism.