-- Weekend Miscellany --

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I've long been a fan of Arthur Cleveland Bent's natural histories of North American birds, even though some of the writing is now outdated. His account of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (actually written by Arthur Allen prior to Tanner's monograph) is available online here (scroll down several pgs. to reach IBWO):

http://tinyurl.com/27kyjbt

And finally, a good recent, close-up photo of the birds here ;-) :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavatron/5105559457/

Lastly, Mike Collins proudly shows off his new La. license plate here:

http://www.fishcrow.com/winter11.html

(Searchers in Louisiana on the lookout for Ivory-bills, can now also be on the lookout for Mike's Honda driving down the highway!)

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