Fishcrow on ID-Frontiers

Here.

Update: Don't miss Kenn Kaufman's response here.

A post from The Speculist

Here.

Water project not a risk to "rare" bird

Here.

Excerpt from Rich Guthrie's comment section

I just noticed this old comment:

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.

best,

Rachel Dickinson

Comment by rdickinson — May 10, 2007 @ 2:34 pm

More from Dickinson is here.

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

The Washington Eagle and the IBWO

Here.

The evidence is "great"

An excerpt from this 7/28/07 blog post:

...For example, the ivory-billed woodpecker, not seen since 1944, may still be living happily in the Cache River National Wildlife Reserve in Arkansas! But evidence must be good to prove that a creature is not extinct, and in this case it is great: Enter the video evidence! Maybe this will be a wake up call for politicians to continue funding wildlife reserves. After all, they really seem to be doing their jobs…the proof in on the tape! To learn more about the story of this long-lost woodpecker, check out http://www.ivorybill.org/

Carolinabirds posts

Here and here.

Audubon Society Bird Walk

An excerpt from this notice:

The Choctawhatchee Audubon Society is planning a picnic, bird walk and ivory-billed woodpecker search on Aug. 18 at Morrison Springs.

The site is north of Bruce and south of Ponce de Leon.

Meet at Badcocks Furniture in Niceville at 7:30 a.m. to carpool, or at 9 a.m. at the springs.

Bring lunch, swimsuits, snorkeling gear and kayaks.

On a related note, check out the IBWO stuff on page two of the November 2006 newsletter here.

"We saw lots of ivory-billed woodpecker holes"

Check out this December 2006 video of John Ruthven, explaining "the scientific process that was used to search for the ivory-billed woodpecker on his recent trip to the panhandle of Florida".

A related video is available as "John Ruthven 1" here.

A post from The Drinking Bird

Here.

More from Rip Lyttle

Here.

A Google search on ["rip lyttle" bigfoot] yields links like these:

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Link 3
Link 4

"General Impression of Size and Shape"

"General Impression of Size and Shape", another IBWO movie, has evidently just been completed.

A synopsis is here:

Fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a rural town in the Arkansas bayou, searching for concrete proof of the recently-spotted Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, previously thought to be extinct. Rabid environmentalists, opportunistic entrepreneurs, skeptics and disgruntled loggers and hunters vie for prominence in the ensuing chaos. Enter amateur birder and philosopher Johnny Neander, who has convinced his taciturn sidekick that he will be the one to find it. Exploring the twilight of uncertainty between documentary and narrative fiction, all truth becomes subjective in this existential tragicomedy comedy about a troubled man desperately searching for an elusive bird that may, or may not, be “real”.

The movie's website is here; its IMDb page is here.

An interview with writer/director/producer Alex Karpovsky is here. Karpovsky apparently has at least some understanding of the truth behind the Arkansas "Ivory-bill" fiasco--at one point, for example, he says that people "think" they saw it. About small town mysteries or phenomenons, he says "...usually they bring in money for a very short amount of time...as the money goes away, only the hard-core people remain...the hard-core believers, I always find interesting as character studies."

Here is a related paragraph from a 2006 article:

The 30-year-old filmmaker hopes to make his next feature later this year. “It’s about a small town’s relationship with an elusive woodpecker that no one seems able to find,” says Karpovsky. “It’s gonna be balls of fun, excruciatingly funny and, if all goes well, tinged with a whisper of existential melancholy. I’m still trying to find all the actors I’ll need and have yet to secure all the financing. So if there’s anybody out there ready to quadruple their investment, please do let me know.”