Ivory Billed Woodpecker found?

Maybe. A guy claims to have smoking gun photos taken in a swamp in north Louisiana. Several university ornithologists supposedly are vouching for the authenticity. Stay tuned and keep your eyes open, we may have a few in this area!

You going for the $50,000 reward? 😀

I remember a guy found one where the new airport is going in. Of course he had no proof.

Saw one 8 years ago in Old Seagrove. I am certain it was an Ivory Billed. Been studying birds for 30 years.

Saw one 8 years ago in Old Seagrove. I am certain it was an Ivory Billed. Been studying birds for 30 years.

How cool is that!!!

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Woodies

15 years ago off Don Bishop Road at the Turtle Hole you would see them all the time. As the years have passed less and less. I has been years now since I last saw one.

puglet... :scratch:

Maybe. A guy claims to have smoking gun photos taken in a swamp in north Louisiana. Several university ornithologists supposedly are vouching for the authenticity. Stay tuned and keep your eyes open, we may have a few in this area!

Got a link to the story?

Got a link to the story?

Daniel Rainsong Finds Living Ivory-Billed Woodpecker! - Free-Press-Release.com

Daniel Rainsong Finds Living Ivory-Billed Woodpecker! - Free-Press-Release.com

The list of academics is interesting. I expected to find Cornell on there, after their intensive, if blunt, search in Arkansas. No mention of Auburn, though, who have made IMHO a much more effective search of the Choctawhatchee basin, with sightings, discovery of foraging signs, and audio recordings that they are holding in reserve awaiting even more concrete evidence. And Jerome Jackson is one of the chief skeptics, insisting the bird is extinct.

I figure the skeptics won't believe it until some fool shoots the poor bird and brings it back. :bang:

They can shoot it with a camera, then I'll be a believer. Weren't we promised pictures?

:popcorn:

Only after he has scientific agreement on their validity and likely the marketing rights to the photos.

I'm waiting to see them too.

I was sick of waiting for pics so went and found one for myself. Really, would a Pileated let someone with an iphone get so close? Case closed, they are here!