Posted on 04/29/2011 12:40:16 PM PDT by Red Badger
Dr. Michael Collins, Naval Research Laboratory scientist and bird watcher, has published an article titled "Putative audio recordings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)" which appears in the March issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. The audio recordings were captured in two videos of birds with characteristics consistent with the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. This footage was obtained near the Pearl River in Louisiana, where there is a history of unconfirmed reports of this species. During five years of fieldwork, Collins had ten sightings and also heard the characteristic "kent" calls of this species on two occasions.
Scientists working independently in three states have now published articles that report multiple sightings of and various forms of evidence for this elusive species, which is extremely difficult to observe and photograph due to its rarity, wariness, and tendency to roam over wide areas in remote swamp habitat. The two previous articles present findings from Arkansas [Fitzpatrick et al., Science (2005)] and Florida [Hill et al., Avian Conservation and Ecology (2006)].
During two encounters with an Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Collins heard high-pitched calls that seem to match the description of an alarm call that was reported by James Tanner in the 1930s but was never recorded. On both occasions, the calls came from the direction of the bird and began at a moment when the bird was alarmed. Several of these calls were captured in the first video, which received a positive assessment from an independent expert, Julie Zickefoose, whose paintings of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers have appeared on the covers of a leading ornithology journal and the leading contemporary text on this species. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
hope to see a picture.
I miss the woodpeckers that we saw around our house in the Sierra Nevada foothills. They sounded like Woody Woodpecker. I miss the great horned owls, too.
I read about the Yuroks on Wikipedia - very interesting. Is there a site you would recommend reading to get good information about your tribe?
I wish there were a way for Republicans/conservatives to reach out to the tribes. Some tribal people live on some of the most valuable land in the world, (like the land east of Pima Road near Scottsdale, Arizona). I would guess the average home price over there at $500-600K each, yet the hogans on the farmland are just horrible. Yet all the profits or subsidies seem to flow to a privileged few - probably the tribal leaders.
It’s the same thing down in Sacaton, or on the reservation near San Xavier south of Tucson... it’s disgraceful the stranglehold the libs have on these people. They need know they can succeed if they believe in themselves.
This issue bothers me a lot. I wish I knew what to do to reverse the problem. If the dems had their way, the tribal folks live the way they would like us all to live.
www.yuroktribe.org/ across the very bottom of that page is
home, culture, government, region, Maps etc. etc. You can click on any of them for info.
OK thanks!
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