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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 06/16/2006 : 05:25:07 [Permalink]
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The same Ivory Billed Woodpecker which has yet to be found after a massive search, with many tens of researchers, the dept. of interior and motion sensitive wildlife cameras? They have had at least 36 people looking for over a year.
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Researchers in Massachusetts said the interpretation of several of the bird's features was "mistaken".
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Whatever the outcome of the row, the search for the woodpecker has boosted tourism in Arkansas by 30% - a woodpecker celebration day was even held in February.
No doubt its a lucrative 'sighting' for the Cornell folks who are now writing books and throwing all of their ornithological weight behind the bigfoot-esque video clip.
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In January, Jackson published a direct attack on Cornell's science in The Auk, a respected bird publication. He charged, among other things, that Gallagher's original sighting suffered from what might be called "story creep." Gallagher's book, published in May 2005, estimates his distance from the bird at "less than 80 feet." In the July 2005 issue of Audubon magazine, his wife wrote that it was "less than 70 feet." In an interview on "60 Minutes" in October, Gallagher said the bird was "about 65 feet away." At one news conference, Fitzpatrick observed that if Gallagher and Harrison had not shouted, the bird "might even have landed on the canoe." Jackson wrote: "Observations can become more and more 'real' with the passing of time, as we forget the minor details and focus inwardly on the 'important' memory." He characterized Cornell's science, memorably, as "faith-based ornithology."
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But in March of this year, David Allen Sibley, the author of "Sibley's Guide to Birds," issued a frame-by-frame analysis of the video. (I know Sibley and have been in the woods with him on a few occasions.) Sibley's critique (which Cornell quickly rebutted) offered a completely different interpretation of the video. As Sibley saw it, the bird pushed back from the tree and rotated its wings furiously, scooping the air to gain initial flight. In other words, the "topside trailing feathers" you could see were actually the underside feathers of a wing strenuously wrenched backward in the act of getting airborne. The most famous ivory-billed woodpecker of the 21st century looked to David Allen Sibley like a pileated flying away.
So anyway, Ill wait for actual evidence for the money making "Lord-God" bird.
Link, NYT article
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Gallagher's book, you can find Harrison's initial reaction to Luneau's video: "It makes a bad Bigfoot movie look good."
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2006 : 13:40:27 [Permalink]
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Sad update there, BigPapa, about the Ivory Billed. I hadn't followed the issue, and had thought it was clearly "back" from extinction. Cornell, after all!
Fascinating to see how this bird is driving tourism as Bigfoot is in Idaho and Malaysia. Alive or not now, the Ivory Billed at least once did exist. There's not hide nor verified hair, much less a single skeletal remains, to show Bigfoot ever walked in the forests of the Northwest.
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2006 : 01:03:34 [Permalink]
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A neutral exhibit should include a pair of carved "Big Feet" used by a hoaxer. There is no excuse for not doing DNA analysis on a hair sample. The sasquatch hair found in the Yukon recently was analyzed fairly quickly (it turned out be bison hair).
I think Sasquatches could be out there, I would like them to be out there, but I realize the odds are against it. I would have expected one of them to have been nailed by a truck somewhere in the Northwest by now. There are a hell of a lot of big rigs on the Trans Canada late at night.
I have 3 explanations of the Sasquatch phenomenon.
They could be bipedal apes, probably descended from Gigantopithicus. Perhaps they are too smart to end up as road kill.
They could be extraterrestrials on nature holidays on a primitve planet. They are required to avoid contact with humans, but a few can't resist the opportunity to scare the bejesus out of someone who will never be believed anyway. This would explain the lack of bodies.
Since this penomenon occurs in many may parts of the world (Yowie in Australia, Yeh Wen in China, Yeti in the Himalayas etc.) it could be the result of encounters with the Neanderthals in Europe before Homo Sapiens dispersed into the rest of the world. The Neandarthals would have become bigger and hairier with every retelling until they resembled the sasquatch. |
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