Washington Post
Even the scientist who wrote the obit cried.
“This is not an easy thing,” said Amy Trahan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who reviewed the evidence and wrote the report concluding that the ivory bill “no longer exists.”
“Nobody wants to be a part of that,” she added, choking up in a Zoom interview. “Just having to write those words was quite difficult. It took me awhile.” More
If the government say’s it’s extinct then it must be true, amirite?
I would wager $1,000 that within three years this is retracted.
Codi death or Vaccine death?
If evolution is true, then there is no right and wrong. And people weeping over this bird are merely undergoing some peculiar chemical reactions inside the electrochemical meat machine that is their body. The result of some audiovisual signals. In fact, evolution is unguided and purposeless. So this animal dying out is of no consequence. It just couldn’t hack the evolutionary pressures. Suck to be that bird, I guess.
Only when you invoke God can you have any frame of reference for ethics, morals, beauty, human dignity, animal dignity, et cetera. Even matters of wildlife management and woodland management become incoherent without God at the fore. After all: WHY should we give a rip about owls and lizards and estuaries if… it’s all one big accident?
You kick God out and… nothing holds together.
The irony is that way more species of plants and animals are being discovered than are going extinct. So, my point is this, as Some Dude says, it’s part of a process we have no control over . . .
The last Ivory bill woodpecker gets eaten by Buzz Buzzard.
Damn! Dem things was tasty.
Wolverines were suppose to be extinct in the Sierras. And then people started hanging Game Cams on trees and guess what.
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker hasn’t been verifiably sighted since the 1930’s. Past time to move on without tears.
Its kissin’ cousin the Pileated Woodpecker is doing fine. I saw a pair fly past my house this week.
We have Pilated Woodpeckers here too, they did a number on our cabin in the woods. They are destructive birds, but heh, they were here first. The acorn woodpeckers have torn up a State Parks building here. They have made a nice place to stash all their acorns. Siding, eaves, holes all filled with acorns. 🙂
There’s one in my yard right now.😉
I discovered the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
Still have one stashed under my front porch.
There were another 23 species they wrote off at the same time. Most were freshwater mollusk in the Midwest and quite a few were Hawaiian species wiped out by rats, pigs and cats.
“The newly extinct species are the casualties of climate change”
Of course. Need proof of climate change, just refer to extinct critters.
Lived this long and never saw one. Who cares?
I’ve got two in my back yard…..
Sure, but think of all the new species of Covid we Got Now.
Delta
Epsilon
Faggala (ask Lemon)
Gamma
Theta
It gets real bad when we get to Omega, Man
I like the little peckers.
Some Guy,
“If evolution is true, then there is no right and wrong. And people weeping over this bird are merely undergoing some peculiar chemical reactions inside the electrochemical meat machine that is their body. The result of some audiovisual signals. In fact, evolution is unguided and purposeless. So this animal dying out is of no consequence. It just couldn’t hack the evolutionary pressures. Suck to be that bird, I guess.
Only when you invoke God can you have any frame of reference for ethics, morals, beauty, human dignity, animal dignity, et cetera. Even matters of wildlife management and woodland management become incoherent without God at the fore. After all: WHY should we give a rip about owls and lizards and estuaries if… it’s all one big accident?
You kick God out and… nothing holds together.”
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I know you know this but the selective value people are able to place onto this animal but not onto that one (or not onto that unborn baby) is proof that they’ve elevated themselves to the status of God in their own minds. They alone are the arbiter of what’s worthy of life and tears, and what’s not worth the slightest consideration.
I read about them being extinct a few years ago, except they said then that it was just the North American ones.
They still exist in Cuba and are not going extinct there, according to that article. Seems a little convenient to list it as extinct now, due to climate change, of course, when they haven’t been seen here in nearly 100 years.
Muffuker had a beak made of ivory! That’s racist cultural appropriation against elephants!
FOR SHAME IVORY-BEAKED BIRB! FOR SHAME!
Not joking. I swear I have a pair of these fuckers in my backyard eating the shit out of the suet we put in the bird feeder. I’ll take more pics and give them to Claudia’s Critters
Wait a minute! You mean you’re not supposed to shoot those darn things?
Every ivory-billed woodpecker that ever lived aren’t worth the life of a single unborn child.
I see one every morning, but it’s a painting by Audubon.
@Some Dude
“Only when you invoke God can you have any frame of reference for ethics, morals, beauty, human dignity, animal dignity, et cetera. Even matters of wildlife management and woodland management become incoherent without God at the fore. After all: WHY should we give a rip about owls and lizards and estuaries if… it’s all one big accident?
You kick God out and… nothing holds together.”
Hear, hear. The woodpecker is a very interesting design. It gets its dinner from pecking into trees and finding worms and bugs. Magnificent! All God’s designs are awesome when you think about it.