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[Oligobird@xxxxxxx]

Thank goodness the Ivory Billed was reported and believed. I am sure most of 
us have given up reporting even the most unmistakable birds because of the 
instant scorn poured on our heads! We have seen, for example, a fork-tailed 
flycatcher in KS after a tremendous wind storm (Sibley shows one green dot 
around 
Quiver but KS and Cornell don't believe us), a yellow wagtail in Denali, AK (a 
hypothetical record is on the books and it is in the area), a pair of Dovekie 
in Two Harbors, MN in an irruption year where there was a pair of harlequin 
duck (one dead Dovekie already on record at Rice Lake, MN) and even an ivory 
billed 30 years ago at a location we do not reveal (canoeing in very deep 
woods). 
I can understand we have to be careful about accepting reports from 
enthusiastic amateurs, but the birds do not read the books, and a first 
reaction to an 
unusual sighting does not need to be so crushing, and instantly rejecting. A 
"how interesting" followed by gentle probing of bona fides (i.e., experience of 
the observer) may lead more of us to bother reporting rare sightings of 
especially obvious ID's like Fork-tailed flycatchers (especially when it was 
sitting next to several scissor-tails and a shrike, of all things). Ralph 
Brinkhurst, Lebanon, Wilson Co.

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