Comments on: “IBW Photographer” Faces Unrelated Charges – UPDATED

By: JMonkey

JMonkey — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:54:45 +0000

Thanks Alton. I am quite sure they were Pileated after looking at the picture, but I will be going home in a few months, and I will take my camera just in case. If I see one I will snap a picture. I love seeing all the unique birds this country has. Just last summer I saw my first painted bunting, it was truly exhilerating.

By: gkingdano

gkingdano — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:34:49 +0000

To me, it looks like he was trying to come up some quick cash to cover his a**, knowing that the law was after him and thought that the reward would cover the money he stole. I live in the east Texas piney-woods Big Thicket and see the pileated woodpecker almost every day at its dead pine tree in my front yard. It is not a scared of me at all. Before hurricane Ike another dead pine in my yard always had a pair. But at the dead pine food tree in the front yard, there only a single bird. I truely hope that the IBW is out there but I fear it has passed on with all the other animals that mankind did not have room for in the quest to make monetary use of the “useless” waste bottomlands.

By: Alton Higgins

Alton Higgins — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:28:41 +0000

I should have said that the only OTHER U.S. woodpecker (besides the Ivory-biiled Woodpecker) with a red crest, or any crest, is the Pileated.

By: Alton Higgins

Alton Higgins — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:26:34 +0000

JMonkey, The only U.S. woodpecker with a red crest is the Pileated Woodpecker. Your grandfather was right: killing woodpeckers is illegal.

By: JMonkey

JMonkey — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:51:25 +0000

Question? Do red headed woodpeckers have the crest that he ivory billed redpecker does? Do any other members of the woodpecker family have this red crest? Just asking. I remeber as a child that my grandfather had some woodpeckers near his house that had red crest, but I am not sure what type they were. He always said it was not allowed to kill them. He was Native American and called them Indian Woodpeckers.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:46:11 +0000

Dolphins along way from where they should be are in a New Jersey river, saw a news clip of them a couple days ago.

By: alcalde

alcalde — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:36:11 +0000

So that’s the new name for our swimming rats now? “River dolphins”?

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:19:28 +0000

Vs? Reading a bit to much into my statement Loren, I’m not against any of you. Just fed-up with con men milking cyrpto for fame and fortune. Cons and hoaxes are a waste of bandwith to me. Hows about some news about the NJ river Dolphins?

By: MountDesertIslander

MountDesertIslander — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:34:12 +0000

Ivory Billed Woodpecker > Fraudulently Billed Father-in-Law

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:17:22 +0000

Dear “korollocke”

Not sure what this “korollocke” vs “you guys” stuff is all about. You did read about all sides of the story here, didn’t you?

Questions were raised from the beginning, and still are.

As far as I know, we are all in this together, and everyone here is searching for the reality behind any and all of these stories, aren’t we?