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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Jen[/i] [br]You've probably heard about the 2004 sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (commonly called the "Lord God Bird"), which was thought to be extinct. Since then, biologists and eager volunteers have been voraciously trying to document the bird's existence in a righteous effort to secure funding for habitat preservation (as well as a less righteous effort to secure 15 minutes of fame, I suspect). I've got to admit that I'm appalled at the current "hard-target" searches to find this rare creature. Droves of people are slogging through swamplands that were pretty darned quiet prior to the 2004 sighting, and many have claimed to see specimens flying away. Big surprise! They are disrupting the habitat & making the woodpecker's efforts to survive even harder. It seems no one considered quiet, camouflaged observations, preferably from boats designed to hide waterfowl hunters. And, if they have tried this approach, they've surely been thwarted by the flood of flailing do-gooders on parade. Am I venting? Yes I am [:0] Anyway, here's a good site on the Ivory-billed hoopla (from a pro-hoopla perspective): http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/ [brown][size=1]The View From My Boots: [green]www.bovesboots.blogspot.com[/green] [/size=1][/brown] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.