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Ivorybills...again
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Ivorybills...again
- From: "Rob G" <thrush@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:14:34 +0000
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
S. Shultz wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is
>support for a similar search for the bird in Cuba? My understanding is
>that there were much more recent records of the birds (1980's?) from
>central and southern parts of the island.
IBWs were found definitively in eastern Cuba in the late 80's by a team
headed by Lester Short (technically a subspecies of the N. Amer. IBW) -- I
don't think it ever amounted to more than a single pair (Jerry Jackson got a
glimpse at one of them). By the 1996 the birds had not been seen for several
yrs. and were officially re-declared
extinct by the Cuban Gov't. In 1999 fresh evidence of their presence
was found again and searchers have been looking ever since -- things are
fairly hush-hush and if they have been found no one is revealing it.
Official sources say there has been no sight confirmation.
Regarding Pearl River, I think folks need to realize that area was on no
one's top-ten list for IBWs before D. Kulivan's sighting. Were they to be be
found there it would open the door to searching many other
previously-unconsidered locales; not finding them there is a largely
meaningless outcome, still leaving the main areas of interest in need
of a similarly-styled searches.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Rob Gluck
Chapel Hill
thrush@hotmail.com
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