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Armed with a research grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Arvin began the hunt in the Big Thicket last Nov. 1. It will continue through the next month when new leaf growth on trees will make looking for the elusive nomadic bird even more impossible.
"I'm hopeful, neither optimistic nor pessimistic," Arvin, 63, said. "I'm not 100 percent convinced. We may not have any, even though they may be somewhere else, Florida or Arkansas."
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No clear signs of the Ivory-billed have surfaced after several months of searching the Big Thicket and monitoring by electronic devices. Shoe-box size cameras belted to tree trunks are aimed at promising cavities carved out by woodpeckers or at areas where bark has been scaled off by birds in search of a beetle snack.
They've captured photos of squirrels and other birds, including a similar-looking but smaller Pileated Woodpecker, but no Ivory-bills.
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"It will continue through the next month when new leaf growth on trees will make looking for the elusive nomadic bird even more impossible."
Only in IBWO la-la-land can there be different levels of "impossible."
Big Thicket, or Big Ticket?
"new leaf growth on trees will make looking for the elusive nomadic bird even more impossible"
A VERY unique hypothesis.
How come real Campephilus are so easy to locate in the tropics where leaves are on the trees all year round?
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