More Imaginary Sightings!
Thank heavens that the unsubstantiated reports keep filtering in. It keeps the press writing articles about Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers as if they actually existed!
On the typical day, someone somewhere reports that they've seen the rare bird, believed extinct until a Hot Springs kayaker said he spotted one along the Cache River near Brinkley in 2004.
Davis, the city planner for McCrory, and Robison, who works for the Arkansas Department of Economic Development, said Friday they were driving near Cotton Plant when a female ivory-billed swooped in the sky behind an oncoming truck.
"I saw something come off the tree, like the truck has spooked it," Davis said in a telephone interview from his office in McCrory. "It came by again and it had its wing span out and it just kind of glided back into the woods, and I said 'Is that what I think it is?'"
Davis, who has attended workshops about identifying an ivory-billed woodpecker, said he and Robison believe it was a female because the bird had a black head and body with white wing-tipped feathers, but no red. The male ivory-billed has a red crest.
Connie Bruce, a spokeswoman for Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology, which is researching the possible re-appearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker, said the search continues despite no evidence being turned up last winter.
"The search is on," Bruce said. "This is very important to us. We all want to locate this bird."
And get your names in the paper, apparently. We here at Blue Crab Boulevard would hold a workshop on spotting these imaginary birds, too, but we are a bit cramped over here at the moment. So we'll just pass along the handy dandy instructions via the Algore Memorial Interwebby Tubes™®©¥:
Turn left when you reach Elvis and proceed until you see the Bigfoot.
UPDATE: Ivory Bill, Schmivory Bill. We got the real goods.
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