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"MMinNY" over at IBWO Researchers Forum brings to my attention (thanks!) these "Technical Comments" (pdf) from one "J. Christopher Haney" of the Defenders of Wildlife organization to the USF&W Ivorybill Draft Recovery Plan. Haney believes Ivorybilled Woodpeckers are extant, but has several misgivings/criticisms of the Draft Plan as outlined. Too many specifics and concerns to try to summarize here, except to say that he echoes, in a more detailed way, many notions that I've expressed here in the past about IBWO research and assumptions, and he offers several changes/revisions to the Plan. Worth a read (~16 pgs.).
Addendum: just found this additional somewhat prescient 1998 article with Dr. Haney as senior author, having to do with the endangered Kirtland's Warbler:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ASV/is_4_23/ai_54023101
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from the Web Grab Bag, 2 stories to bring a smile to your face:
1. a short barn owl story from India
and,
2. thanks to Birdchick blog for bringing this YouTube offering of an unbelievable crow/cat friendship to my attention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JiJzqXxgxo&eurl
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