$50,000 offered for bird photo

[johnastovall]

A private donor has offered $ 50, 000 to anyone who presents photographic proof of the ivory-billed woodpecker, hoping to rekindle enthusiasm for the bird reportedly spotted in the state (Arkansas) in 2004.

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[Truckman]

I predict rising sales of white paint in Arkansas soon...Ben

[Imagebuffet]

I see myself renting some long lenses in the near future...

Really, though, I found it frustrating trying to photograph woodpeckers. I could hear them when I was camping in Arkansas, but I never could figure out where they were.

[venchka]

We have several kinds around the house. From the big pileated to tiny downy. They are easy to see.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

WELL I think we should send 5 guys out each with a boat-gps-some good sound equipment and of course some fast glass and cell phones- spend a long week over there and then split the $50K (plus states $10K?) and get a shared credit photo printed all over the world!

[zeroendless]

Finding the Ivory-billed Pecker is larger than life in Audubon society.

$50k!?, no thanks.. I would be a multi-millionaire if i can prove the existence and got hold of a video/photo image of the Ivory-billed Pecker. LOL

Even the NASA equipped teams can't locate one.........

[Imagebuffet]

Originally Posted by DEMDeepEllumMusic

WELL I think we should send 5 guys out each with a boat-gps-some good sound equipment and of course some fast glass and cell phones- spend a long week over there and then split the $50K (plus states $10K?) and get a shared credit photo printed all over the world!

I just glanced over a dozen Web pages on this bird. I learned that extensive efforts from teams of searchers have been combing the woods looking for this bird for the last 3 years. They explored 3000 miles of forest last year. I would love to be able to participate, but I would need a grant.

[kenw]

I'd love to paint that sucker that has torn up the facia on my house......do I get the reward if he's been plugged with a 410?

[LABirder]

Hmmmm...an Auburn ornithology team wrote about some sightings in the Florida panhandle in 2006 (I think that's the right year)...maybe I'll pay my mother a visit!! ROFL I don't think I could handle the mosquitoes to go where the Ivorybills live!

[KD5NRH]

The woodpecker last was spotted in 1944 — until early 2004, when a videotaped image of a blurred bird that could have been the ivory-billed surfaced.

Blurry videotape? That's aliens and bigfoot, not woodpeckers.

[Imagebuffet]

I just spoke to a friend who says that an ivory billed woodpecker hangs out at his brother-in-law's birdfeeder. I told him to get a photo. We'll see.

[prncfarquad]

I heard that the Ivory Billed WP hangs out with the snipes I used to hunt as a kid.