Jerome A. Jackson, a zoologist at Florida Gulf Coast University, is challenging a blurry video cited by other scientists as showing a clip of one bird, saying the four-second image does "no more than suggest the possibility" that the bird still exists.
Since the woodpecker's discovery, federal agencies have promised millions to help preserve the bird's eastern Arkansas habitat in and around the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge.
>related (below) "Extinct" Woodpecker Sighted
~It wouldn't be the first time the feds have redistributed millions, or even billions, of tax dollars for something that doesn't exist or wasn't there. Missile defense technology and Iraq's WMDs come immediately to mind.
Posted by Cieciel at July 24, 2005 01:08 AM