Another whooping crane has been shot but this time not in Indiana, this time in South Dakota. There’s a $10,000 Reward.
There’s a hilarious story out of east Texas about a guy in a trailer park who found an ivory-billed woodpecker. Two stations covered it with footage they recorded. One got footage of a red-headed woodpecker, the other started with a red-headed woodpecker and then got footage of a pileated.
One station tried to hide their footage, the other did a follow up that maybe the bird wasn’t an ivory-bill after all.
Meanwhile, a pair of teenagers found an actual rare bird, an elaenia. Will we ever find out what species tho?
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But he seen it on the learning channel!
I can understand wanting study specimens of a new species, but given that ivory-billed woodpeckers aren’t a new species, and older study specimens exist (the Smithsonian has at least sixteen), the need for new study specimens would presumably be outweighed by the need for a viable breeding pool in the unlikely event that living ivory-billed woodpeckers were found.
When is Birds and Beers NW Ohio? I know I’ll be up there the same weekend you are.
John, Birds and Beers is May 10 http://www.biggestweekinamericanbirding.com/social_time.htm