Lewbart and Deresienski to speak

Here.

More links

1. More from Rich Guthrie is here.

Update: Guthrie discusses his alleged IBWO sighting here (MP3).

2. "Hearing is believing?" here.

More links

1. The Mobile Search Team's final(?) log entries are here.

2. More from Patrick Coin is here.

3. Arkansas volunteer searchers are pictured here.

Today's links

1. Yet another IBWO glimpse is claimed here (see the "Eureka!" May 8 entry).

Update: The glimpser will evidently be on an NPR affiliate tomorrow!

An excerpt from this link:

I spent most of April down in the Bayous of Arkansas with the Cornell team, looking for the elusive IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER. I went down as a skeptic. I came back a believer.

I was fortunately (lucky) enough to actually SEE one!!!

The story is a bit long. And beyond this note, it's probably not appropriate for this forum.

I will be discussing the details tomorrow on the Albany, NY NPR affiliate WAMC. Folks down through the Hudson Valley or out the Mohawk Valley can listen in. Or, others can pick up the live broadcast on line at www.wamc.org.

Rich Guthrie

Another update--here's an excerpt from this link:

First for those who asked (sorry - my lapse), the radio program will be from 2 PM till 3 PM EDT (with a short news update at the beginning). The program is called "Vox-Pop", a listener call-in show (with an 800 348-2551 toll free
number) where I am essentially on the "hot-seat" taking questions on the air.

If you have questions for Rich, I encourage you to give him a call today (Wednesday) between 2 and 3pm Eastern.

2. An interview with Geoff Hill is here.

3. John Wall writes:

As of May 2007, the National Audubon Society is still soliciting money on the false pretenses of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker "rediscovery"...

Some details are here.

Today's links

1. A new Ivory-bill blog is here.

2. Some blog entries from an "official" IBWO searcher are here.

3. "Bigfoot risks extinction" here.

4. More IBWO reports mentioned here.

Today's links

1. "Woodpecker Man", a short video on David Luneau, is available here.

2. An article on Mark Ross' failed IBWO search in the Congaree is available here (registration may be required). An excerpt:

The closest Ross came to finding an ivory bill was on day four of his search when he spotted a cormorant flying toward him from about 90 feet away. The large, dark bird turned and gave him a broadside view of its head, wings and body in good light. It was only a naked-eye view, but for a few seconds Ross thought it could possibly be an ivory bill.

"I kept thinking ... cormorant, cormorant, but I could never fully discern a cormorant," said Ross, education coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Conservation at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks. "I immediately stopped paddling and wrote notes and sketched."

In the end, though, Ross concluded it was a cormorant.

"There was not enough brilliant white on the wings or bill," he said.

It was the second time that Ross had his hopes dashed. In January, Ross traveled to the Florida Panhandle and undertook a solo 11-day search for the ivory-billed woodpecker along the Suwannee River. During that search, the sighting of a pileated woodpecker, a smaller ivory-bill look-alike, temporarily got Ross' hopes up.