I get it on the local public radio station. Basically two car experts that solve car problems and marital disputes involving car questions. They play a game called "stump the chump" where they follow up on some of their trickier calls to see if they had the right answer.

Anyhoo... looking at the seeming ease at which paulnj whips out those ID's make me want to go photograph that funny looking huge white-billed woodpecker that's in the woods behind my house. Think you can ID that ;) ?

As far as I know, in your area, that can only be a Pleated Woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus.

Paul, are there any Ivory-Billed's in Oregon? If that is what you got you need to contact the audubon and report it.

The Ivory billed woodpecker lives in low land swampy areas.

The recent one found was in Arkansas, and the previous was in CUBA in the 80's I do believe :)
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/

You photograph a US bird , I will ID it 99 times out of 100 :) Even David Allen Sibley mis-ID's birds on occation ;)

The Ivory billed woodpecker lives in low land swampy areas.

The recent one found was in Arkansas, and the previous was in CUBA in the 80's I do believe :)
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/

You photograph a US bird , I will ID it 99 times out of 100 :) Even David Allen Sibley mis-ID's birds on occation ;)

Thought they were extinct, according to a bird book I have. Guess I better get a new one, eh?

Speaking of NPR, they had a story on the search for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Great story, and it's in their archives (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4622633) if you want to listen to it. Yeah, I listen to Car Talk too. :)

http://www.ivorybill.org/story.html

http://audubon2.org/webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=110

http://www.geocities.com/tertial/ibwo2.html


One of the interns at the hawkwatch was actually in Arkansas with Cornell when they fund the bird :) She was the person who did the recount of the days searches. She didn't see it though.