Ivory Bill

“On 41 occasions different team members have seen the bird. We heard that double knock, it’s a sound the ivory-billed makes that no other bird makes, but we didn’t get a clear video of the bird,” Hill said.

Another claim of the Lazarusarian appearance of the thought-to-be-forever-gone Ivory Billed Woodpecker. This time in Florida.

I know a lot of you aren’t as excited by such news as we birders are. But then again, perhaps we should be hoping it isn’t true. The way things are going, it’s re-arrival (dare we call it the Second Coming) seems to be presaging the end of the world. By the time there are enough to count on two hands Florida will be under water….