The saga of the Ivory Billed Fraud continues! Both myself and my esteemed Adjunct Blogger, Rich Horton have regularly trashed, belittled and made fun of the continuing nonsensical waste of precious Federal wildlife funds chasing the extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker. However, this has not deterred the gleeful waste of those Federal dollars one iota. And so, today, the announcement of yet another expedition into Arkansas to hunt the bird that died off around the end of the Second World War.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Last year, Allan Mueller thinks he saw the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker. The wildlife biologist wants to make sure of it this winter.
Mueller plans to head back into the swamps of eastern Arkansas with a scaled-back search team consisting of 26 volunteers and three expert field biologists.
Searchers will begin their work in the Big Woods on Saturday. The campaign will run through the bird’s nesting season in March and April when the ivory-bill is most active, Mueller said.
Although three previous searches involved more volunteers, more scientists and more time in the woods, Mueller feels confident he and his team will get results.
“We’re going to find a big black and white woodpecker,” he says flatly.
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard have a solution for those folks who are going to volunteer to be disappointed yet again. Hours, days and weeks tromping through swamps will get old. The sheer drudgery of wading through swamps in search of a long dead bird will wear thin. So we have shortened the search for all of you. Yes, we have located video of that elusive, black and white woodpecker!
You can thank us later. But thanks for all your hard work burning up Federal money that could have been used on living species.
*votes for humans to be that species*
*Further votes for dollars to be spread in the most efficient manner– by never being taken*
*going to bed now, because she’s clearly delusional*
I don’t know what all the fuss is about, there’s lots of peckerwoods in Arkansas, most any color you want. You can get a good close look at ‘em for the price of a draft beer.