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re: $12,000 Reward for Information Regarding the Whereabouts of an Ivory Billed Woodpecker
Posted on 4/28/22 at 10:27 am to Loup
Posted on 4/28/22 at 10:27 am to Loup
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None of them are in good enough shape to be valuable but I like looking at them.
Same. Mine are all prints, but even they are getting some age on them. I've picked them up at antique and junk shops as I come across them over the years.
I have his passenger pigeon, night heron, Louisiana Heron, mallard and blue winged teal.
My inlaws bought his squirrel for me for Christmas because they know I liked his work. I didn't have the heart to tell them it's his birds that are his best work. It's a cool piece though, just nothing that would have caught my eye.
Eta: Oh damn. I was googling the Carolina Parakeet to see what it looked like and found this pic...
Obviously it's an IBWP, Carolina Parakeet, and a passenger pigeon.
This post was edited on 4/28/22 at 10:32 am
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Posted on 4/28/22 at 10:54 am to Clyde Tipton
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Oh damn. I was googling the Carolina Parakeet to see what it looked like and found this pic...
Holy crap, that's a cool picture.
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My inlaws bought his squirrel for me for Christmas because they know I liked his work
I agree, the fisher cat/martin I have just looks kind of scary. It isn't nearly as interesting as the birds.
It's this one.
I purchased all of mine in the frame at different estate sales. It seems like every estate sale in West Feliciana parish has a few of them.
Posted on 4/29/22 at 8:31 am to Clyde Tipton
If those 3 are frozen somewhere....... chances of brining them back is 100 with todays cloning technology.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 11:24 am to Clyde Tipton
Idk if this has posted here but saw this on the Meateater website, there's signs of some in " Undisclosed Louisiana"
LINK
LINK
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:14 pm to John_V
Article sounds like more hope that rock solid evidence. Hoping it pans out!
Posted on 5/13/22 at 6:30 pm to omegaman66
I could have sworn I saw a pair on Tangipahoa river yesterday. The biggest damn woodpeckers I’ve ever seen. I’m sure it wasn’t, but when I tried to take a pic they flew off
Posted on 5/13/22 at 7:39 pm to CypressTrout10
I see pileated woodpeckers all the time where I work. Every damn time I get excited hoping it’s an ivory billed. The location is pretty close to one of the last “legit” sightings. I wouldn’t tell a soul if I did see one though.
Posted on 5/20/23 at 7:58 am to WeagleEagle
Posted on 5/20/23 at 8:17 am to rmc
Pretty sure that same "study" has been brought up in this thread already.
The journal that published that should be ashamed of themselves...especially if they've ever turned down a Bigfoot or black panther paper.
The journal that published that should be ashamed of themselves...especially if they've ever turned down a Bigfoot or black panther paper.
Posted on 5/20/23 at 8:42 am to rmc
Two people that are very pro ivory bill have debunked this video.
Posted on 5/20/23 at 11:16 am to WeagleEagle
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I wouldn't tell a soul if I did see one though.
Good man.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 7:49 am to 308
WDSU had shared this on their Facebook page a few days ago.
Needless to say, most of the commenters aren't as interested in being secretive about the bird. Everyone and their momma saw a pair in SELA after Katrina. Damn birds are booming in Pearl River/Honey Island and no one knew it except the locals.
Half of those people probably call a damn Cardinal a "red bird", but they can positively state that what they saw is not a pileated.
Needless to say, most of the commenters aren't as interested in being secretive about the bird. Everyone and their momma saw a pair in SELA after Katrina. Damn birds are booming in Pearl River/Honey Island and no one knew it except the locals.
Half of those people probably call a damn Cardinal a "red bird", but they can positively state that what they saw is not a pileated.
This post was edited on 5/21/23 at 7:53 am
Posted on 5/21/23 at 8:23 am to rmc
Link to the “new” research
LINK
Your entire mission in life is to document an IBWO and here you are hearing what you think not one but two IBWOs for 3 hours. Tells me there is something there like a nest perhaps. And you wait 3 days to go back to the spot? I would have found a way to that “inaccessible spot” and been there the next day, not 3 days later
There are some personal accounts in that link that talk about seeing one and having a camera around their neck but not being able to snap a pic because they were in awe of the size of the bird and when they finally got the camera up the autofocus wouldn’t focus on the bird blah blah blah it’s a damn woodpecker
I want to believe but the stories of these first hand encounters just makes me shake my head
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P. Vanbergen first recorded kent calls at this particular location within our study area on March 12. On the morning of March 15, P. Vanbergen and M. Courtman returned to the location and Courtman recorded ~200 kent calls and a smaller number of apparent double-knocks over a 3-h period (See Appendix 2). Differences in volume among calls made in close temporal proximity indicated that at least two birds were involved. Because the calls emanated from an inaccessible area across a deeply incised waterway, it was not possible to approach the birds. No calls were heard on return visits to the location on March 18 or March 25–28.
Your entire mission in life is to document an IBWO and here you are hearing what you think not one but two IBWOs for 3 hours. Tells me there is something there like a nest perhaps. And you wait 3 days to go back to the spot? I would have found a way to that “inaccessible spot” and been there the next day, not 3 days later
There are some personal accounts in that link that talk about seeing one and having a camera around their neck but not being able to snap a pic because they were in awe of the size of the bird and when they finally got the camera up the autofocus wouldn’t focus on the bird blah blah blah it’s a damn woodpecker
I want to believe but the stories of these first hand encounters just makes me shake my head
Posted on 5/21/23 at 8:49 am to Ron Cheramie
Posted on 5/21/23 at 9:00 am to Ron Cheramie
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were in awe of the size of the bird
All the more reason to believe it was their first time seeing a Pileated Woodpecker. I honestly doubt you could notice a 2” difference between the two if they weren’t side by side.
Posted on 5/21/23 at 12:11 pm to Ron Cheramie
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Your entire mission in life is to document an IBWO and here you are hearing what you think not one but two IBWOs for 3 hours. Tells me there is something there like a nest perhaps. And you wait 3 days to go back to the spot? I would have found a way to that “inaccessible spot” and been there the next day, not 3 days later
There are some personal accounts in that link that talk about seeing one and having a camera around their neck but not being able to snap a pic because they were in awe of the size of the bird and when they finally got the camera up the autofocus wouldn’t focus on the bird blah blah blah it’s a damn woodpecker
I want to believe but the stories of these first hand encounters just makes me shake my head
Exactly!
They want so badly to discover one alive that, at the same time, they are seemingly making up excuses to keep the dream alive. It's almost as if, subconsciously, they know it's gone, but by having all of this "Bigfoot evidence", they've convinced themselves it's what they saw, but never have to worry about anyone else looking at it and being able to say that it's not an IBWO.
Otherwise, someone would have produced a damn good picture of one by now.
The logic alone is asinine. You've spent so much time in the woods with this loud arse bird, but can't get a picture of it because it's "elusive"? But yet you recorded the calls and have blurry pictures and drone footage of it in the wide arse open?
Sure...
Posted on 5/26/23 at 2:35 pm to Cowboyfan89
I just heard about the newly released paper/evidence.
I want to believe, but I didn't see any irrefutable evidence. Just more of the same...
I've seen some amazing pictures in DU, national geographic, etc. and these guys are still out there with mid tier trail cams and drones? How about we get someone from national geographic to tag along with one of those bad arse cameras like this?
I want to believe, but I didn't see any irrefutable evidence. Just more of the same...
I've seen some amazing pictures in DU, national geographic, etc. and these guys are still out there with mid tier trail cams and drones? How about we get someone from national geographic to tag along with one of those bad arse cameras like this?
Posted on 5/26/23 at 3:04 pm to Clyde Tipton
Ben Lilly killed them all, and they named a bridge after him
Posted on 5/26/23 at 4:59 pm to Clyde Tipton
They gone.
Posted on 5/27/23 at 1:21 am to SloaneRanger
Two guys on this crew mis ID pileateds in the field w “top”ibwo” searchers
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