Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 2nd, 2008
Kayaker Gene Sparling says he spotted the bird Feb. 11, 2004, and Cornell University experts made subsequent sightings. Starting on December 6, 2008, new searches begin.
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 14th, 2008
The following is the uncropped version of the photograph, via the BBC:
A lost bird returns. The Caatinga Woodpecker (Celeus obrieni) had not been seen since its discovery in 1926 when Advaldo do Prado came across this one in eastern central Brazil. The country has more globally threatened species than any other. (Image: Guilherme R C [...]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 11th, 2008
Photo by Jim Weber/The Commercial Appeal
Allan Mueller of The Nature Conservancy trolls through Bayou DeView in east Arkansas, where there were several ivory-billed woodpeckers sighted in 2004. The continuing search has been fruitless — and expensive — with development projects delayed. “We’ve got to get a picture,” he says.
The Commercial Appeal of Memphis has an [...]
Read: As Elusive As Bigfoot »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 10th, 2008
It is always good to update a year old story. The Kokako ~ the New Zealand version of the ivory-billed woodpecker intrigue ~ is back in the news.
The Kokako has recently been in the newspapers again, with a new sighting of this contemporary cryptid.
Alec Milne, an amateur ornithologist from Golden Bay, in the [...]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 12th, 2008
My search for Pinky continues. But I am becoming convinced from my exploration of the central St. Johns River area that Pinky reports are a probable event of the recent past, and mostly a foggy memory, at best. No current knowledge of these animals or cryptids is contemporarily apparent.
The draft of the river [...]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 2nd, 2008
March does not bring Spring easily and without a fight to the state of Maine. It calls forth my wanderlust, as talks pop up and investigative traveling for me to the South is on the horizon. Trips call me away from the 100-plus-inches worth of snow in Portland, and out of the cobwebs [...]
Read: Loren: On the Road Again »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 11th, 2008
A recent new find in Asia must be understood in the larger context of how the birding community discusses “new species.” Not all talk of “new discoveries” of birds are of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker variety or level of effort, but most are of the talk of ranges, new life list records, and interlopers.
As a [...]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 29th, 2007
This is the time of year throughout North America when birders take their annual “Christmas counts.”
This involves identifying and counting what bird species birders and casual observers have seen in their area.
Besides the various extremely large avian cryptids that avoid detention by having small numbers, being ignored, flying too high, hiding, and remaining in remote [...]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 24th, 2007
This file photo shows a grizzly bear moving through the brush in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. (Courtesy: Yellowstone National Park)
In September 2007, a black bear hunter “mistakenly” shot and killed a grizzly bear in the “rugged Idaho terrain near Kelly Creek about three miles from the Montana border,” according to the Associated Press.
The [...]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 19th, 2007
Yep, that’s me. Getting carried away with my passion for all things cryptozoological. I noticed today on the web that one of those “ask” sites had this question: “What are the different fields in Cryptozoology?”
This was their “Best Answer - Chosen By Voters” - to wit - “Cryptozoology is a branch of zoology; [...]
Read: Cryptozoology’s Subdivisions »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 6th, 2007
Geoffrey Hill, Scharnagel Professor of Biology at Auburn University and author of Ivorybill Hunters: The Search for Proof in the Florida Panhandle told reporter Donathan Prater of the Opelika Auburn News that he has obtained three types of evidence of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers (Campephilus principalis): audio, video, and photographic.
After getting a small grant, Hill and several [...]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 12th, 2007
What are the lesser-known cryptids that you know about, that you are pursuing, and/or that you feel should get more attention?
Nowadays, it is easy to come up with a list of popular well-known cryptids. Click on this one of the top 50 here, to see what I mean.
But we all know there are [...]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 25th, 2007
Megan Richardson’s article in a Downeast Maine newspaper will be remembered as the first media discussion of a little known Maine cryptid, Belfast’s Muck Monster. See the third paragraph from the end for more on that creature lurking in Kirby Lake.
Prospect [Maine] — World-renowned cryptozoologist Loren Coleman visited Fort Knox over the weekend as [...]
Read: Belfast’s Muck Monster »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 4th, 2007
The Voice of America has announced that a new documentary film is in production about the ivory-billed woodpecker.
The title of the new documentary by George Butler is The Lord God Bird. This film’s title, of course, reflects the name of the bestseller that appeared just as the news of the new video was hitting the [...]
Read: The Lord God Bird Trailer »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 9th, 2007
I understand he wasn’t talking about “new species” in the same way that cryptozoologists do, but this thoughtful quote for the day speaks to how we have to “listen” as well as “look.”
The air is full of birds, and as I go down the causeway, I distinguish the seringo note. You have only to come [...]
Read: Thoreau: Listen For New Species »
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