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FW: Ivory billed woodpecker

To: Bill Jolly <>
Subject: FW: Ivory billed woodpecker
From: Chris <>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:38:06 -0800 (PST)
Thanks Bill,

I appreciate the info. Mind if I send it on to the blog that I linked to?

Also, regarding the Arkansas sighting - was that the one filmed from a kayak or 
canoe? If so, I spent a fair amount of time examining it and am satisfied it is 
consistent with the IBW and is probably not a pileated. 

Cheers,

Chris



On 24/01/2010, at 10:55 AM, Bill Jolly <> wrote:








Thanks Chris.

I've been following Ivory-billed developments since the reported Arkansas 
sightings in 2004, and this  very odd press-release claims a supposed Texas 
sighting.

It appears that Daniel Rainsong is a former(?) professional gambler, and 
non-birder so far as I can tell, who announced that he intended to find an 
Ivory-billed Woodpecker, with a view to claiming the $50,000 reward ofered by 
Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

He advertised for a photographer/assistant to accompany him to the Sabine River 
in Texas "from December 21, 2009 until January 3, 2010". 

He claims to have sighted and photographed the bird on 29 December. 

His press-release lists five eminent academic contacts that he has notified 
about his discovery. 
The first of these, Dr. James Van Remsen, curator of birds at Louisiana State 
University's Museum of Natural Science has since advised that Mr Rainsong 
visited him, "but he would not show me his photographic evidence.. He said he 
had to develop them." 

One entry point for anyone who would like to dig further into this morass is:
http://cs.birdersworld.com/brdcs/blogs/field_of_view/2010/01/22/woodpecker-experts-haven-t-seen-supposed-ivory-bill-photos.aspx


Bill Jolly
"Abberton"
Lockyer Valley, Queensland.


(27o 34' 21" S; 152o 08' 21" E) 



Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:50:04 -0800
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Subject: Ivory billed woodpecker (was Re: [Birding-Aus] Hoax, Hybrid or Poor 
Photo?)
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And today's announcement that the ivory-billed woodpecker was twice 
photographed last month. 


http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ibw-rainsong/

Chris


On 23/01/2010, at 10:45 PM, Laurie Knight <> wrote:

Odd birds can generate odd reactions. Consider the following thread on Bird 
Forum - http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=161527

Is the bird a strange Pallas Gull or something constructed in Photoshop?

LK
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