Woodpecker halts Ark. irrigation project - Disputed woodpecker halts project

AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/20/06 | Andrew DeMillo - ap

[NormsRevenge]

A stuffed male ivory billed woodpecker, is shown in this Monday, May 2, 2005 file photo taken in the main lobby at the New York State Museum in Albany, N.Y. The museum is uncertain about the date or place of acquision of this artifact or the female ivory billed woodpecker, which is also on display. Until recently the last sighting of the bird was in 1944. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)

[xrp]

The judge is a pecker himself.

[NormsRevenge]

that would explain the gavel thing. ;-)

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

The kayaker's claim to have seen an ivory-billed woodpecker in the woods near the White River caused a sensation in scientific circles.

Presumably then I can claim to have seen a dodo pretty much anywhere where I want work to stop.

[DoughtyOne]

So I'm guessing that any building plans in Alaska would have to take into consideration possible damage to the woolly mammoth's possible habitat.

[DoughtyOne]

So I'm guessing that any building plans in Alaska would have to take into consideration possible damage to the woolly mammoth's possible habitat.

[gridlock]

The other shoe finally drops on this story.

I remember reading last year about how hundreds of birders were out looking for this bird, and not finding it. I thought at the time that there would eventually be a ESA case at this location.

Want to make any bets that the kayaker who "saw" this thing opposes the irrigation project?

[TommyDale]

Is the project called "Morning Wood" by any chance? ;-)

[dirtboy]

And that field next to my house that is going to be developed into tract housing - I SWEAR I saw a passenger pigeon in it last week.

[Sgt_Schultze]

The judge has exactly as much evidence that Bigfoot is loose in the same area.

[NormsRevenge]

You in the area? I'll check local papers to see.

[BaBaStooey]

[Madeleine Ward]

I am curious about the statement that there is no proof whatsoever.

In April, I was channel flipping and found a satellite channel that was airing a lecture about this woodpecker.

The professor had a video clip of this bird flying off the side of a tree and into the woods. He went frame by frame pointing out various features that would distinguish this bird from the pileated woodpecker.

I'm no scientist, but I am an avid bird watcher on my own property, and I was quite intrigued. I could definitely see the differences. Of course, what I don't know whether the video itself is authentic.

[DoughtyOne]

I'm sure the enviro set has never claimed they saw something just to inhibit growth.

[Lazamataz]

The Silver Spotted Hornedbeaked Platypus (which has never been seen anywhere, ever) might be endangered if we do anything, anywhere, ever.

Stop everything.

Now.

[cripplecreek]

Looks like it would be fairly easy for an amature tomistake a Pileated woodpecker for an Ivory bill. I took this photo of a Pileated in the yard just a few weeks back.

http://www.worldisround.com/articles/54892/photo276.html

[oxcart]

OH NOOOOOOO NOT AGAIN;

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[dirtboy]

Nah, they'd never do anything like this:

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[dirtboy]

Dang, you beat me by half a minute

[Dixie Yooper]

"Authorities said it is needed because the main aquifer beneath eastern Arkansas's soybean, cotton and rice fields is running out of water and could run out by 2015, causing economic hardship."

This is an aquifer, not an oil field. Is it really running out of water, or are they over taxing it by allowing too much farming?