The ornithology community laughed at me. No matter! I know what I saw.
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And the DOJ will not do anything about the white-billed peckerwood who moved in the White House a few weeks ago.
And the DOJ will not do anything about the white-billed peckerwood who moved in the White House a few weeks ago.
And the DOJ will not do anything about the white-billed peckerwood who moved in the White House a few weeks ago.
The last time I saw one, it was sitting on the shoulder of Big Foot.
Seriously, there have been reported sightings of the bird in the swamps of Louisiana and on timber land in Alabama. Most reports of researchers I’ve read seem to look in most easily accessible land while never venturing off the beaten paths.
I suspect, just as many birds and animals thought extinct but of which sightings have eventually been reported, they have been pushed into smaller and smaller habitats where humans seldom venture. And of course they make themselves scarce when the hear the sounds of human activity. They are there, they just don’t want to be seen.
Screw all the other Woodpeckers!
It looks similar to the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker,
that is not uncommon but often mistaken for the Ivory-Billed.
VP Kamala is miffed. “Why is there no official bird named after me? I think I have a good idea why..”
I’ve been chasing the Gila woodpecker nearly every day. The little devil likes to peck holes in my siding when he’s not drumming on my metal chimney cap.
A good read. I ran across the story of the Singer tract in Louisiana when I was poking around to drill a gas well there. Seems like they sold this HUGE hardwood forest to the Chicago Mill and Timber Company. They clear cut it to make, from what I have been told, everything from Model T’s to PT boats. Hardwood bottoms don’t come back in our lifetimes. Now, it is all flat swampy farmland.
I’ve dedicated my life to the pursuit of the Round-breasted Mattress Thrasher.
Fortunately their are still huge swaths of undeveloped swamp and forest in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi where the IBWP could still be living. Most people wouldnt know one if they saw it.
Thanks for posting. I have read about this on and off over the years, and hope the Ivorybill is still kicking. I have seen preserved specimens of extinct species at the Field Museum in Chicago. They are a saddening and haunting sight.
I love it when people who were not present decide what another person has seen. And, why in the world, must he "persuade them otherwise?" He knows what he saw.
In February 1989, on a backwater of the Tennessee River, I saw one. The markings on the back are unmistakable. I do not care what "experts" say. They weren't there. I won't try to "persuade" anyone. Their beliefs won't change what I saw.
Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed reading it. Yes, long but well-written.