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Hope to see any and all on Monday March 23 at OWU for the Delaware County
Bird Club meeting. Contact me privately if you want to view the full
newsletter.
Regards,
Darlene Sillick
Evening programs of the Delaware County Bird Club are held in room 163 of
the Conrades Wetherell Science Center. They begin informally at 7:00 p.m.
and the formal meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments and beverages are
provided prior to the meeting. The Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of
Zoology is open to guests and a sample of mystery birds from the museum is
available to test your identification skills. Parking is available in the
Selby Stadium parking lot across Henry Street from the Science Center or in
the lot beside the Science Center on the campus drive. The doors of the
building are open until 8:00 p.m.
March 23 Peckerwoods in paradise
Jack M. Stenger
In 2005 a press conference was held in Washington D. C.. at the office of
the Department of the Interior. At the conference John Fitzpatrick,
Director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, announced the rediscovery
of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. He reported calls and sightings from the
swamp forests of the Cache and White rivers in Arkansas. A year later Geoff
Hill, an ornithologist at Auburn and a birder since childhood, reported
similar evidence from a large tract of swamp forest in the panhandle of
Florida. The photographic evidence was open to question, and Jerry Jackson,
an ornithologist at Florida International University and expert on
woodpeckers including the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and David Sibley felt the
evidence in the photographs was less than conclusive. The auditory
evidence, based on double knocks was a bit clearer, but still open to
alternative explanations.
Fast forward to 2009. In early January Jack Stenger, investigative reporter
for the Delaware County Bird Club newsletter and birder since the age of 5,
and long-time birding buddies Paul Wharton and Bill Stanley left Cincinnati
for a week in the pine swamps of the Florida panhandle. Their purpose? To
verify the reports of Dr. Hill and his colleagues. To find and photograph
the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. To add another check to Jack's "Life List".
They spent the next week in kayaks paddling through miles and miles and
miles of pine swamp listening and looking for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
What did they see? What did they hear? What evidence did they find? Jack
will present an illustrated lecture based on his trip into the pine swamps
of western Florida. Be sure to come for refreshments, conversation, and the
usual dead bird quiz.
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