Today's links

1. Article on Bobby Harrison here.

2. More funding news here.

Festival at CLO Saturday

An excerpt from this article:

The latest technology will explain how scientists find the endangered Ivory-billed Woodpeckers and other birds.

Lowering the bar

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Last spring Fulton, a retired English professor, spent a week in the Congaree Swamp in South Carolina, with U.S. Fish & Wildlife and S.C. Game and Fish searching for possible habitat for the ivory-billed woodpecker.

Henry T. Armistead reviews Hill's book

An excerpt from a Henry T. Armistead review of "Ivorybill Hunters" here:

Extensive recent pursuits in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and, in this case, Florida have produced a few tantalizing and probably valid reports but no proof in the way of video evidence. In this engaging tale of the search for the elusive bird, Hill (biology, Auburn Univ.) recounts how he and his colleagues may have found a population of ivory-billed woodpeckers in the swamps of Florida's panhandle. His depiction of the challenges of exploring the bottomland swamps and the technology of the search—remote audio and video sensing, GPS navigation, kayaks—brings to life the difficulties facing Hill's crew, who so far have achieved more sightings and gathered more audio evidence than any other group.

A report from a Cornell searcher named "Henry Armistead" is linked here.

Fooling Minnesota

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“The Austin chapter is thrilled to get Mr. Harrison for the Oak Savanna Bird Festival as only five people have reported seeing this impressive bird,”said Terry Dorsey, president. “The fact that Mr. Harrison has seen it on five separate occasions makes it even more certain that the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct, but can be found in specialized habitat and there is some hope for recovery.”

"Reported" rediscovery

A couple of retirements are reported here.