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Be safe JT

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:19:00 GMT

clipped by: cabanaben
clipper's remarks: Be safe my friend, tracking storm, the ski, and MM worry about you. Just natural for the species, I know you are tougher than woodpecker lips, or we just pretend. Let me know what is going on.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: george carlin alive and well in fl

Wind turbines power energy debate

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:25:23 GMT

clipped by: CohoctonWindWatch

Clip Source: www.thenational.ae

The rolling hills and butter-yellow cornfields of western New York hardly look like a battleground. This quiet corner of rural America is shingled with dairy farms and big red barns. If the peace is ever broken, it is by the chug of a tractor or the hum of a woodpecker tapping on maple; at night the stars shine as brightly as street lights. But as a growing energy dependency crisis pushes the United States towards renewable forms of fuel, energy companies and land owners are locked in a bitter battle. They are fighting over who owns the wind.

Tags: industrial wind, wind turbines, alternative energy, environment

Ten reasons why Bigfoot's a bust.

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:42:21 GMT

clipped by: Elfrida
clipper's remarks: Go to the site for an informative slideshow.

1.) The Empty Fossil Record

2.) Forget Fossils, Where Are the Bones?

3.) Where Do Bigfoot Babies Come From?

4.) Your Lying Eyes

5.) The Ever-Mysterious Blobsquatch

6.) Doctor Who?

7.) The Case of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

8.) This Katydid Couldn't Hide

9.) If It Walks Like a Hoax ...

10.) The Case of the Missing Footprint

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

Ten Reasons Why Bigfoot's a Bust

Woodland birds on route to extinction as numbers dive

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:41:32 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

A suite of woodland species, from the nightingale to the spotted flycatcher, fell by more than 50 per cent between 1994 and last year, according to the report of the annual Breeding Bird Survey, run by the British Trust for Ornithology, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The willow tit has declined by 77 per cent over the period and is extinct over much of Britain. But other declines are nearly as bad: since 1994, wood warbler has declined by 67 per cent, nightingale by 60 per cent, spotted flycatcher by 59 per cent and pied flycatcher by 54 per cent. Lesser spotted woodpecker has declined so much that it is too rare to monitor accurately on a national basis.

Factors being considered include predation by grey squirrels or great spotted woodpeckers (not proved), the decline in the form of woodland management known as coppicing (possible) and the huge rise in the numbers of deer (much more likely).

The other factor is migration.

Tags: environment, forest, birds, i-extinction, i-increase

PILEATED WOODPECKER ITEM TO ORDER

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:59:30 GMT

clipped by: jaxrebfan

Clip Source: www.backyardbird.com

There's room for 2 suet cakes in this extra long suet feeder. Featuring an elongated paddle, woodpeckers will appreciate the tail support while they nibble away. Made of 7/8" natural cedar. It comes with a hanging cable.

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Pileated woodpeckers are the largest woodpeckers in North America. They excavate large, rectangular cavaties in dead wood. These cavaties often attract other birds as well. They primarily eat insects, ants, and wood-boring larvae. They also enjoy nuts, fruit, and suet. The Pileated Woodpecker Suet Feeder has an extended paddle that supports the weight of the woodpecker's tail while it feeds. MADE IN THE U.S.

Elusive wood pecker

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:57:30 GMT

clipped by: Rieann1000

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

For the last three years, researchers in camouflage and waders have slogged through the east Arkansas woods hoping to spot a rare bird that so far seems unwilling to be seen.

Some scientists still believe the ivory-billed woodpecker exists in the Big Woods, but they haven't been able to capture a sharp image of its remarkable 30-inch wing span and glossy black and white feathers on film or video camera.

To date, searchers have investigated about 83,000 of the 550,000-acre woods that swallow up the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is where kayaker Gene Sparling spotted the bird Feb. 11, 2004, and Cornell University experts said they made subsequent sightings.

Tags: woodpecker, rarebird

Murphy's laws site

Tue, 27 May 2008 23:44:00 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Lots of fun...

Clip Source: www.murphys-laws.com

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure. great discoveries are made by mistake.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

Dobie's Dogma:
If you are not thoroughly confused, you have not been thoroughly informed.

The more knowledge you gained, the less certain you are of it.

Find Sounds

Sun, 11 May 2008 16:46:13 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: Now here is a GREAT time waster.If you can't amuse yourself here,you don't belong in grade school

Clip Source: www.findsounds.com

Find

Sounds

Animals alligator, baboon, bat, bear, bobcat, buffalo, bullfrog, camel, cat, cheetah, chimpanzee, chinchilla, chipmunk, cougar, cow, coyote, crocodile, deer, dinosaur, dog, dolphin, donkey, elephant, elk, ferret, fox, frog, gibbon, goat, gorilla, grizzly bear, guinea pig, hippo, horse, hyena, jaguar, kitten, lamb, lemur, leopard, lion, llama, marmot, monkey, moose, mouse, orca, panda, panther, pig, polar bear, prairie dog, puppy, rabbit, raccoon, rat, rattlesnake, rhinoceros, rodent, sea lion, seal, sheep, snake, squirrel, sugar glider, tiger, toad, whale, wolf, zebra

TV and Movies Tim Allen, Beavis and Butthead, Bewitched, Bionic Man, Daffy Duck, Flintstones, Elmer Fudd, Godzilla, Jetsons, Jurassic Park, Psycho, Monty Python, Roadrunner, Scooby Doo, Simpsons, Star Trek, Star Wars, Tarzan, Taz, Three Stooges, Tigger, Ace Ventura, Woody Woodpecker, Xena

Tags: sounds, time, waster

Confused woodpecker

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:42:42 GMT

clipped by: valann 47

Clip Source: www.liveleak.com

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Confused Woody woodpecker mistakes aluminium ladder for a tree.

Tags: birds, woodpecker

Legless lizard slithers across Brazil

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:42:38 GMT

clipped by: pokkets

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Alister Doyle

Scientists have discovered a legless lizard, a toad and a dwarf woodpecker among 14 species believed to be new to science in central Brazil, a wildlife conservation group says.

A four-week expedition to the Cerrado region, a wooded savannah under threat from the expansion of farming, found eight apparently unknown types of fish, three reptiles, one amphibian, a mammal and a bird, Conservation International says.

"The lizard, of the Bachia genus, resembles a snake due to its lack of legs and pointed snout, which help it move across the predominantly sandy soil," says the non-profit group.

A spokesperson says the lizard is about 15-20 centimetres long. Other legless lizards around the world include ones related to geckos in Australia or slow worms in Europe.

The lizard was found during the expedition to the Serra Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a 716,000 hectare protected area in the Cerrado.

Other suspected new species include a dwarf woodpecker and horned toad.

this legless lizard looks suspiciously like a 'snak'!

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:37:03 GMT

clipped by: silvanaraihane

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

This legless lizard found in Brazil's Cerrado is probably a new species, Conservation International announced Tuesday.

Conservationists on Tuesday announced the discovery of 14 species probably new to science — among them a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker — in a Brazilian high plains region that they said is being converted to farms at twice the rate of the neighboring Amazon forest.

A four-week expedition by U.S.-based Conservation International and several Brazilian universities ventured into Brazil's Cerrado, afterwards describing the species — eight fish, three reptiles, one amphibian, one mammal, and one bird — as poster children for a campaign to save the area.

“Protected areas such as the Ecological Station are home to some of the last remaining healthy ecosystems in a region increasingly threatened by urban growth and mechanized agriculture,” CI biologist and expedition leader Cristiano Nogueira said in a statement announcing the finds.

New species discovered in Brazil

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:30:48 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: Gallery

Clip Source: www.conservation.org

Legless Lizard among New Species Discovered in Cerrado Region of Brazil

Arlington, VA – Researchers discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil’s Cerrado, one of the world’s 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots.

The Cerrado’s wooded grassland once covered an area half the size of Europe, but is now being converted to cropland and ranchland at twice the rate of the neighboring Amazon rainforest, resulting in the loss of native vegetation and unique species.

An expedition comprising scientists from Conservation International (CI) and Brazilian universities found 14 species believed new to science – eight fish, three reptiles, one amphibian, one mammal, and one bird

Tags: discovery, animals, brazil

With all the recent clips on Penises, here's one on Vainas from T. Robbins

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:42:10 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: PW: 'Without a Canyon of the Vaginas in which to peck our American tantra, in which to connect our hormones to the stars, we may be becoming psychological paraplegics...' You wrote this in 1988 in a travel piece about your journey to North Canyon in Nevada, the Canyon of the Vaginas. I was wondering - do you think we're living in an age of psychological paraplegia now? Or does this age of bare navels, solicitous bum cracks and jelly-on-a-plate busoms bring out the puritan in you?

TR: : Those winking navels and peekaboo butt cracks just make me wish I was young enough to engage them in a more -- shall we say? -- hands-on way. All that erotic display is delicious -- as far as it goes. The problem is, we have no means in contemporary culture to connect the sexual to the spiritual. That is what is missing. When, for example, we consistently fail to place the vagina within any kind of sacred context, our non-clinical, non-priggish references to it run the risk of being only shallow, cras

Clip Source: www.bookmunch.co.uk

Mr Tom Robbins
Long-esteemed by us fellows here at Bookmunch for his fine fine novels, which include but are not limited to Jitterbug Perfume, Half Asleep in Frog Pyjamas, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Still Life with Woodpecker, the mighty Mr Tom Robbins has just published a rather splendid collection of bits and pieces of fiction, poetry and nonfiction entitled Wild Ducks Flying Backwards. Peter Wild very humbly spoke with the great man himself ... Doff your caps, fools!

Peter Wild (PW): I understand that you've recently had eye surgery. How are you feeling at the moment?

Tom Robbins (TR): : In late June a surgeon cut two pieces out of my right eye, and although I've been lighting candles every day for St. Windex, patron saint of peeping Toms, my binocular vision is still somewhat impaired. Right now I'm squinting at the computer screen as if I were trying to peer through the keyhole in Naomi Watts's dressing room.

Alien, mr Spock? Aye aye, sir

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:13:48 GMT

clipped by: vk2yoc
clipper's remarks: Don't want to meet one of these on a dark night.

Check out the website for more info.

Clip Source: divaboo.info

The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a strepsirrhine native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unique method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull the grubs out.

The Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) is a small North American mole found in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States. It is the only member of the tribe Condylurini and the genus Condylura.

The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a fish that inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of Australia and Tasmania. Due to the inaccessibility of its habitat, it is rarely seen by humans.

Dumbo Octopus

Named after the dragons of Chinese mythology, Leafy seadragons (Phycodurus eques) resemble a piece of drifting seaweed

Tags: animals, weird

25 of The World's Most Interesting Animals

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:54:18 GMT

clipped by: k9riley99
clipper's remarks: Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) native to Madagascar

Clip Source: www.bspcn.com

Leafy seadragon

Sun Bear

Komondor Dog

Angora Rabbit

Red Panda

Sloth

Emperor Tamarin

White-faced Saki Monkey

Tapir

Hagfish

Star-nosed Mole

Proboscis Monkey

Pink Fairy Armadillo

Axolotl

Aye-aye

The Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a strepsirrhine native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth with a long, thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker. It is the world’s largest nocturnal primate, and is characterized by its unique method of finding food; it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood and inserts its elongated middle finger to pull the grubs out.

Alpaca

Tarsier

Dumbo Octopus

Frill-necked Lizard

Narwhal

Sucker-footed Bat

Pygmy Marmoset

Blobfish

Platypus

Shoebill

The Shoebill, Balaeniceps rex also known as Whalehead is a very large bird related to the storks. It derives its name from its massive shoe-shaped bill.

Yeti Crab

Tags: animals, world, interesting, aye-aye