As Rare As The Ivory Billed Woodpecker

[anthonyrosenthal74]

but in this case I am convinced that Ivory-bills are extinct.

I recently saw something about a possible sighting in Arkansas? I think. When searching recently, they were doing that whole audio recording thing too. Could still be a few out there, One never knows for sure until they actually get one photographed or filmed.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I recently saw something about a possible sighting in Arkansas? I think. When searching recently, they were doing that whole audio recording thing too. Could still be a few out there, One never knows for sure until they actually get one photographed or filmed.

You sure this wasn't about a samsquanch?

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

You sure this wasn't about a samsquanch?

yeah... they'd have been knocking on trees with branches too. :rofl:

 

[lonestar]

Seldom, I obviously don't know as much about the Ivory Billed as you, but I've spent a lot of time driving the region around Brinkley, Hazen, West Helena and Stuttgart. I think you're downplaying the immense tracts of inaccessible swamp and floodland between the rivers there. Now *suitable* habit may be a different thing then available habitat but I really wouldn't be surprised if they found bigfoot in those swamps. I wasn't really surprised when they announced the Ivory Billed Woodpecker thing either, but you're right the whole issue is shrouded in mystery and it very well could all be a misunderstanding.

 

[lonestar]

As for wild pipers, I only have about 15 neighbors around me but 3 of us are pipe smokers !

 

[seldom]

I recently saw something about a possible sighting in Arkansas? I think. When searching recently, they were doing that whole audio recording thing too. Could still be a few out there, One never knows for sure until they actually get one photographed or filmed.

Recently was 14 years ago and I was on that search team. Again, hard to prove absence, but in this case I am convinced.

I think you're downplaying the immense tracts of inaccessible swamp and floodland between the rivers there.

Immense tracts of inaccessible is somewhat of an overstatement in my view. In fairness I had worked for years in bush Alaska (one of the wildlife refuges I worked in is more than half the size of Arkansas), and had just come from my job in Glacier National Park Montana. My sense of immense is different. The vast majority of what you are describing is composed of very young trees. Ivory-bills lived in big tracts of very large old trees. That sort of habitat is gone. Only very narrow strips remain.