[TN-Bird] The best of times and the worst of times?

April 28, 2005
 
There are lots of happy and ecstatic birders around with the news of the  
Arkansas Ivory-billed Woodpecker but it also could be the start of a long down  
hill plunge into despair, at least for me.  If this bird does turn out to  be 
just a lone bird, we will have to watch it slowly age and disappear from this  
earth as a species for a second time in a 100 years. Hopefully, if that is the 
 case, it will do so undisturbed and in the wild and not suffer the  fate of 
Martha the Passenger Pigeon, the last of her kind that passed from this  earth 
while in captivity.
 
It is a wake up call to us that we cannot allow the destruction or more  
fragmentation of the habitats we now have left on this small fragile  planet. 
Maybe the bird was sent back to us as one last try to get our  attention. It 
certainly has mine.................
 
 
Good  Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett,  TN


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