Andreas Pfotenhauer wrote: > >> There's a $10,000 reward for finding and photgraphing an >> ivory-billed woodpecker: >> >> http://wikitravel.org/en/Buffalo_National_River#Bird_watching >> http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0926-woodpecker.html >> >> Probably not easy; they're nearly extinct and live in swamps. >> > now this will surely improve the woodpecker population .. hundreds of > hobby ornithologists with cameras running through the swamps, trying > to find a apparently shy bird ;-)
And possibly extinct. Even if there are any left, given how long it's been since the last well-documented sighting, I suspect that you'll have to spend enough time stalking it that $10,000 will work out to be something less than minimum wage. ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
