[EBB Sightings] Ivory-billed Woodpecker radio boardcast
[EBB Sightings] Ivory-billed Woodpecker radio boardcast
Richard Cimino
Thu Apr 28 11:56:00 PDT 2005
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Just by chance I tuned in to Public Radio this morning. I was able to hear
the report of the team of biologist and other professionals describe their
sighting of a single Ivory-billed Woodpecker (IbW).
Also interviewed was the fellow who first discovered the IbW.
His words were truly emotional. He is local birder, who was kayaking the
White Water River of Arkansas and discovered the bird some two years ago.
As any true birder would do after not believing what he had just witnessed,
he went home and did his field guide research.
Not believing his own eyes, he called on local U.S. Fish and Wildlife
agents. A second group formed and re-found the IbW.
He sounded like he was still in shock, some two years later. The is a Three
second video clip of the IbW.
So a video camera records at 30 frames per second.
A three second video clip has ninety frames to study in slow motion.
The biologist who recorded the IbW has detailed field marks frame by frame.
A foot note to all of this, is the IbW was found in a 1000 year old Cypress
Forest back water "channel" which has never been logged.
This is a message for habitat preservation conservation.
Regards
Rich Cimino
Pleasanton, CA.
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