New update from Auburn's Dr. Hill here reporting additional sound detections (double-knocks, kent calls) from April that as he says, have "re-energized the troops."
(BTW, this past weekend I finally saw Dr. Hill's book, "Ivorybill Hunters," at a bigbox bookstore, so if any of you were still waiting for it to appear in your local areas, might be time to check again.)
....and in the just-for-fun-dept.:
Stumbled upon this old limerick : - ) on the Limerick Savant's blogsite from back when the original Cornell announcement was made:
"Extinction is Nature's home wrecker...and here an old post from a physics professor with his take on the Ivory-bill saga.
But thanks to an Arkansas trekker
We could save "ivory-bills,"
And no little blue pills
Are needed to bring back this pecker."
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2 comments:
Hey, thanks for the mention and the link! After seeing that two year-old limerick on your site, I was inspired to rewrite the last line, which I always found a little clunky.
But you'll have to visit my site again to see it. ;-)
Nice blog, BTW.
I'm bothered by Dr. Hill's comments about the double knocks. As I understand it, double-knocks are being accepted or discarded as possible IBWO based upon the spacing of the knocks and comparison to other Campephilus woodpeckers. This sounds rather arbitrary. It seems to me there are two likely possibilities here: they are all IBWO, and the spacing is more variable than commonly believed, or none of them are IBWO, simply being variably spaced knocks from some other source.
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