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Japanese fish printing, or gyotaku, has found a natural new home in Maine.
- By: Cynthia Anderson
Grouper, oil on Asian Paper, 21 x 19 inches, Jack Schwartz.
Jean Kigel embraces the wabi-sabi nature of her art — of finding beauty in imperfection. But she doesn't welcome ooze. Ooze has ruined more than a few prints, and it can happen if she fails to prep every orifice of the fish beneath her hands as meticulously as a doctor attending to a surgical site. "You can't be too careful," Kigel says.
Hence the cotton batting packed into the twenty-four-inch pollock's mouth, belly, gills, nostrils, and vent. Clear-eyed and shining, it lies on the business section of yesterday's New York Times. It's been cleaned with dish soap and alcohol. Kigel runs her fingers down the pollock's side, touches the barbel on its chin. "I want to make sure I get this," she says of the whisker-like structure.
The practice of gyotaku — Japanese fish printing — is as natural in Kigel's Waldoboro kitchen as the boats that bob in the harbor just yards from the cottage itself. Indeed, there seems affinity between the vivid immediacy of Maine sea life and the traditional art form. Gyotaku now sells briskly at Kigel's shows, and a number of Maine galleries have begun to include it in their exhibitions. The College of the Atlantic holds gyotaku in its permanent collection, and the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) hosted a 2009 exhibition of fish prints and accompanying demonstrations of the technique.
"People really enjoyed it," says UMMA director and curator George Kinghorn of the gyotaku show, which featured the work of gyotaku master Boshu Nagase. "[The pieces] were artfully done — representational in terms of the scale of the fish but expressive in their use of color. It was pretty amazing. Personally, I'd never seen anything like it."
Gyotaku has assumed a wider cultural presence as well. Companies sell marine print clothing, and an increasing number of venues are offering gyotaku instruction. Tyler Briggs, co-owner of the Portland-based Corduroy Boutique & Gallery, is including full-scale images of gyotaku surfboards in a September pop-up show in York on surfing culture. "The pieces are great," says Briggs. "We're excited to take the medium and bring it to a new lifestyle."
The pollock on Kigel's counter came from Port Clyde Fresh Catch, where she also goes for redfish and haddock. She gets trout and an occasional sturgeon from the nearby Herring Gut Learning Center, and a variety of other species from local fishermen, including her husband Dan.
She inches the Times closer to the window over the sink, to better gauge the pollock's hues. Pink, green, blue, gray. Then she turns to stare out the kitchen's bay window, over the tops of evergreens. The view includes Hungry and Wharton islands as well as Dan's moored fishing boat. This morning he hauled lobster. They eat a lot of it, with plenty left over for Kigel's ninety-seven-year-old father, who lives nearby.
"I'm thinking purple," Kigel eventually says, whimsy today trumping realism. She squeezes the color from a tube of block-print ink onto a butcher's tray. With a palette knife, she mixes in dabs of white and black. The technique for coating the fish with ink looks deceptively simple. Kigel uses a sheep's hairbrush to apply liberal amounts to its entire side. Then comes the art: extra white on its belly, bits of black, spritzes from a bottle of water to ease hard lines. Deftly, Kigel adds ink here and removes it there. She checks every fin for coverage — dorsal, pectoral, caudal, and gill, seven altogether — then leaves the fish to sit.
In a few minutes, when she presses paper around it to make a print, it can't be too wet, and it can't be too dry.
Her eyes, when she finally looks up, are lit behind their wire-rimmed frames.
Japanese fishermen developed gyotaku in the nineteenth century to serve as tangible evidence of their catch. The walls of Asian tackle and fish shops were once hung with black and white prints. Artists happened onto the form not long after fishermen did, beginning to refine it in colorized, detailed representations. Gyotaku is presently practiced in two ways. In the traditional, or "direct" method, paint is applied to the surface of the fish, which is then covered with fabric or paper and carefully pressed to produce an image. In the "indirect" method, fabric or paper is pasted onto the fish using rice paste or water, and the artist applies paint to the fabric or the paper rather than to the fish. In simple terms, direct is like a thumbprint, while indirect is more like a grave-rubbing.
With both approaches, media and techniques vary — ink on fabric, acrylic, or sumi-e paint, black and white, colored, background or no — as do application methods. Retired school-principal-turned-artist Jack Schwartz, who serves as president of the Nature Printing Society and whose gyotaku is part of the permanent collection of the College of the Atlantic, uses oil paint thinned with linseed oil. He then dabs the mixture onto the fish with a makeup sponge taped around a wine cork, using other sponges to blend color on the fish itself.
Schwartz discovered the form in a magazine article years ago. An avid fisherman, he decided to bring in some fish and share the technique with his school kids. Since then, he's taken classes with other fish printers in the U.S. and in Japan. He considers his work "translations" rather than literal replicas — attempts to "transfer the beauty and drama of the fish into art."
Kigel, already an accomplished artist who'd studied Asian brush painting in Japan, China, and the United States, first attempted gyotaku five years ago after learning about it from a friend. Initially, there were difficulties: torn fins, too-wet paper that ripped, packing that wouldn't stay lodged. As it happened, that winter she was reading Callum Roberts' account of the effects of overfishing, The Unnatural History of the Sea. "It really affected me," she says. "I wanted to intensify public awareness . . . [I wanted my work] to capture dwindling species, both common and exotic." There was also the fact that Kigel, who was raised on a Warren egg farm, grew up hearing stories of returning-to-spawn alewives that saved early settlers from starving after long, food-short winters. "I found that amazing," she says.
Thus inspired, Kigel worked through the winter and spring. By summer she had a few prints she felt good enough about to include in a show entitled "Alewives and the Asian Aesthetic." She's since exhibited gyotaku at a variety of Maine galleries; characteristic of her work is a "fossilized" look that originated in small holes and depressions in the fish itself — "a happy accident" she now cultivates. Sometimes she ghost-prints or re-inks a single fish to produce an overlapping school. She still welcomes wabi-sabi: "A fold in the paper . . . a surprise blending of tones or colors, something uncentered, uncertain — something like fishing itself."
There's also a technical aspect to the work. Reference materials cover the kitchen table: A.J. McClane and Keith Gardner's Game Fish of North America, an Audubon book on fish, several detailed renderings of haddock and rainbow trout, and pages of fish profiles. From a variety of printing papers, Kigel selects gold-flecked shuen for the pollock. Wetting a brush, she draws a line down the middle of a large sheet then tears it in two. Just as she's readying to lay the paper over the fish, the front door opens. Her husband, Dan, enters with groceries and the mail. He sets a sack of potatoes by the fridge, opens it, and extracts a beer.
"Progress," he notes, taking in the prepped fish and a print drying on the floor that Kigel did earlier.
Kigel smiles. "Getting there," she says. She has an upstairs studio, but gyotaku commandeers the kitchen because it can be messy. Dan watches as she begins to press the shuen onto the fish, applying careful pressure to capture every feature. "Like magic," she says of the process. She checks for slime — none, thankfully — then spreads out a fin that is slightly collapsed.
When the paper is completely fitted around the outer half of the fish (the other side is left un-inked), Kigel starts to peel back the shuen. Here is where disasters are most apt to occur: a major smear, for instance, or a puncture. This time, in spite of her care, the paper tears slightly at the pollock's mouth. But it's a small error, one that likely won't be noticeable when Kigel wet-mounts the piece onto heavier stock. Later she will paint a background for the fish, add an eye and other details. She'll conclude by signing her name vertically and including her Asian chop in red cinnabar. But for now the piece is finished — not her best, but far from the worst.
The sun has dropped, the wind died. The evening will be fair. But Kigel is not thinking about the weather, nor is she paying much heed to what might be an osprey, or possibly an eagle, wheeling over the water. Her gaze is outward, but her focus is inward, she'll tell you, on the whole haddock and the trout stored in her refrigerator, on tomorrow's gyotaku and its possibilities.
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In a 1942 article for the ornithological journal The Wilson Bulletin, Tanner wrote "there is little doubt but that complete logging of the [Singer] tract will cause the end of the Ivorybills there." The tract was indeed completely logged, and an ivory-bill sighting there in 1944 remains the last uncontested observation anywhere in the United States. Before he died at age 76 in 1991, Tanner, who taught for 32 years at the University of Tennessee, had sadly concluded that the species was extinct.
Three years ago, I began working with Nancy Tanner on a book about her husband's fieldwork. In June 2009, she discovered a faded manila envelope in the back of a drawer at her home in Knoxville, Tennessee. In it were some ivory-bill images. At her invitation, I started going through them.
One of the first things I found was a glassine envelope containing a 2 1/4- by 3 1/4-inch negative. Holding it up to the light, I realized it was of the nestling ivory-bill from the Singer Tract—an image I had never seen. I quickly found another negative, then another and another. My hands began to shake. It turned out that Tanner had taken not 6 pictures on that long-ago March 6, but 14. As a group, they show the young bird not frozen in time, but rather clambering over Kuhn like a cat on a scratching post, frightened but vital.
Like almost any ornithologist, Jim Tanner would have liked to have been proved wrong about the ivory-bill's fate. In 2005, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology announced that searchers had seen an ivory-bill multiple times in ten months in the Big Woods in Arkansas. Other researchers, connected to Auburn University, reported 13 sightings in 2005 and 2006 along the Choctawhatchee River in Florida's panhandle. In both cases, the sightings were made by experienced observers, including trained ornithologists. Yet neither group's documentation—including a 4.5-second video of a bird in Arkansas—has been universally accepted. So the wait for incontrovertible evidence continues. Photographs like the ones Jim Tanner took in 1938 would do nicely.
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Posted by Kudos on February 22,2012 | 02:09 PM
wow! only about a third of the people who commented actually read it. For those of you who didn't. READ THE ARTICLE! If you are so anxious to post a comment, please check your facts before wasting other peoples time by having to filter thru those rediculous comments. The bird is real, the man it is purched on was Tanner's assistant and he has been dead for years.BE MORE PRODUCTIVE WITH ALL THE TIME YOU ARE SPENDING ON THE INTERNET!
Posted by greta on May 16,2011 | 01:25 PM
My family had hunting land in the old Singer Reserve and we spent many, many days in this swamp. It is wild and beautiful beyond description; stiffling hot and bone chilling cold. I dare say that if a man or bird chose not to be found this would be the place to do so. Does anyone know where Mr. Tanner "camped" at night while the area? May I offer a salute to anyone who spent time there without a camp-house to come to at night.
Posted by scotsirish on May 10,2011 | 05:08 PM
These photos document more than a fledgling IBWO. Note the date of the photos, the condition of the forest in the background and the clothing of the guide. All reveal that the species "was" a very early nester, possibly fledging its young before spring (vernal equinox) This circumstance has major implications for the prior searches and the common assumption that the birds would be difficult to find when nesting in spring within "leafed-out" forest. Conversely, these images suggest the birds would be foraging and active when nesting in leafless winter woods during the typical survey seasons, yet all such efforts failed to find evidence. I've seen no reference to early nesting by IBWO in association with any of the contemporary search efforts.
Posted by Patrick Leary on April 13,2011 | 06:11 PM
As to all these folks who challenge the authenticity of the pictures, I just have to smile at their ignorance... It's sad that James Tanner could not convince the powers that be to do what they had to do to save the last remaining birds... but after what did happen, we probably no longer deserve to see them! I hope that we still do have a chance, but it looks slimmer all the time.
Posted by Alan Asper on April 11,2011 | 03:03 PM
This is amazing. I remember reading Tanner's book when I was a teenager. Although I am sure many would discount it, I was privileged to see one in 1976...
Posted by Ray Nash on February 5,2011 | 11:26 AM
I wish this pesky thing would stay extinct. I have one of these crazy-eyed destructive pterodactyls causing a nuisance around my home. It chases away my song birds and flew off with one of my bird feeders the other day! It also keeps freaking my wife out when it lands on our kitchen window. Trust me, these chicken-sized things are not extinct!
Posted by J Swiss on January 28,2011 | 08:50 PM
I am so excited! I thought the pics published in the magazine looked fake, then I looked at all of the photos and am convinced they are real. To think that a species may not have crossed the line into extinction is wonderful. The diversity of our planet is one of the things that lends wonder and joy to our lives.
Posted by Nina Merklin on January 19,2011 | 01:32 PM
It is obvious that some people did NOT READ the article and only looked at the pictures. Those who commented and said the photo was fake and said things like "why would a bird fly down and perch on a man?" DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE. It is a FLEDGELING! It FELL out. It was FRIGHTENED. Wild babies are taught to FREEZE and STAY MOTIONLESS when in trouble. Please READ and gather your FACTS before commenting. But I know this falls on deaf ears because those idiots who made those commments will never return to this page to see my comment. Sigh.
Posted by Julie on November 30,2010 | 11:44 AM
The photos are all real. These photos were taken in the 1930s for God's sake, when the bird ( although already rare ) still was known to persist in the Singer tract, where these were taken. One of the photos in the series is very famous and was not hidden/lost, but printed in books and on the internet for years. And having known and worked with taxidermists and knowing something about it, I full well know you can't take a mounted specimen and place it in so many poses!! Surely some of you people are off the deep end and need therapy of some sort! A few more brain cells wouldn't hurt either.
Posted by Mark on November 30,2010 | 05:36 AM
I believe the photos are of a live bird given the pupils vary in diameter from photo to photo and the beak's position also moves. And as already pointed out, a "stuffed" bird cannot extend its wings, and the legs and toes cannot be moved without causing considerable damage to the preparation. Fledgeling birds do not behave like their parents; they are not as adept at moving about, especially on the uneven surface of a human shoulder. Given the photos' milieu there is no real reason to believe the photos aren't genuine.
Posted by Joel Pond on November 11,2010 | 05:33 PM
I recently read this article on James Tanner and the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Smithsonian, and after reading some of these posts, I feel that it is absurd and overly cynical that people would think that his photos were faked or photoshopped. Mr. Tanner, his assistant, and his widow do not seem like the kind of people who would have a reason to do such a thing, and after reviewing the additional photos of the immature woodpecker, I believe that this is the real deal. The only known photographs of an immature Ivory Billed Woodpecker. As for recent sightings- I am hopeful that there are still isolated or surviving populations of these birds (which would make them critically endangered). It is a terrible loss to lose any kind of species forever. I hope that more evidence of these surviving birds can be found in the near future.
Posted by George Lewis on November 5,2010 | 12:06 PM
The bird sure looks fake, especially the one where it's stradeling his arm. Sure its feet are the same, but I look at my birds moving around their cage and their feet pretty much always look the same. You see some movement of feathers in some of the last pictures in the group. ? We will never know for sure if it was real or not. So the question is, why would a bird land on his back? Because it was there!!!
Posted by sue on October 29,2010 | 01:05 PM
I have special interest in the Ivory-bill. I have worked for years helping the rare forest eagles, the Harpy, and Philippine Eagles.
The confirmed sightings are enough for me to be excited, and launch my own quest to find the truth about the bird, and maybe my own expeditions to search for it. Remember--- we are the force to help save the planet, we are the only ones that care, and if WE do not act, who will? The land, the wetlands, must be prerserved.
Posted by Neil Rettig on October 27,2010 | 12:17 AM
I am not an ornithologist but I am a graduate (Ph.D.1957) of Cornell. I agree that Cornell is not likely to publish "doctored"photos. However, when I first looked at these pictures I was immediately struck by the likeness of thee photos, especially the beak. I hope Cornell and the Smithsonian will investigate this matter thoroughly and publish the results ASAP.
Posted by Konrad Kingshill on October 27,2010 | 08:03 PM
have had a number of birds and have never had one straddle my arm to perch. also never saw one sit on its tail feathers with legs and talons stretched out....in my opinion you have been duped by an amateur
Posted by bill schmidt on October 22,2010 | 10:08 PM
I now understand - I probably did not read your comment as carefully as I should have! :-)
Posted by stemginger on October 20,2010 | 10:25 AM
The Ivorybill reports were made by credible observers
That's a matter of opinion.
Posted by Farmer on October 19,2010 | 01:13 PM
Anyone who knows the history of the Ivory-bill, James Tanner, and the Singer Tract expedition KNOWS these photos of a juvenile bird are real... silly to even debate it. Whether the species still exists somewhere remains a very open question (...except maybe for the few who know they've seen one).
Posted by cyberthrush on October 16,2010 | 05:15 PM
Fake negatives that are supposed to be 70+ years old would be nearly impossible to convincingly produce. Unless Tanner himself perpetrated the hoax, these "new" photos must be - with a high level of certainty - the real thing.
Posted by Kent Heard on October 11,2010 | 12:30 AM
stemginger: Thanks for reading my comment and adding the information about the birds in the Florida Museum.
However, I was referring to the birds that Jim Tanner studied in Louisiana. Mason Spencer shot an ivory-bill in Louisiana in April 1932. Before that time, they had not been documented in Louisiana since 1899.
Posted by Karen on October 10,2010 | 10:40 PM
Consider this (assuming your reading is more widely focused than merely on birds): How many times have we read/heard in the past 40 years, about heretofore unknown or assumed extinct species, discovered in remote nooks and crannies of the sea? Granted, the oceans are larger and in many ways even more inaccessible than the habitat of an Ivory-bill. But pictures now exist of creatures that would once have been considered beyond our imagining. It is pure hubris to state unequivocally that the Ivory-bill no longer exists. After all, scientists have now found a planet which has conditions compatible with the formation of life.
It's a value judgement, but I think it's worth pursuing current proof---especially if it heartens us for the important fight to preserve some habitat. Who knows what other discoveries lie therein, awaiting disclosure?
Posted by Linda Whyte on October 4,2010 | 07:56 PM
To those who question the bird based on how it perches:
Have you ever seen any woodpecker perch? Aside from a few species, they simply don't stand like a chicken nor perch like a wren--they are optimized for clinging to the sides of trees. Their toes are different than other birds, making an X pattern.
The Ivory-Bill's closest-looking relative is the Pileated Woodpecker, itself an impressive bird. I've seen several, and they prefer to cling rather than perch. In the only photo I found after a moment's research where the Pileated is perching, it looks quite awkward.
I think these photos are real. On the other hand, the recent sightings, I believe, are of Pileated Woodpeckers. It will take certain proof--clear photos, DNA--to convince me otherwise. Having canoed the Cache River (at about the same time the alleged discovery was being investigated) I have hope. The area is about as wild as one can find these days. But I recognize it is hope and not certainty, and until such proof it is logical to assume extinction.
Posted by Greg Brown on October 1,2010 | 11:58 AM
Two of the last Ivory-bills known to have been collected were shot in 1924 in central Florida and sold to the Florida Museum. They were shot under permit. Sorry Karen the 1899 -1932 is in correct.
Posted by stemginger on September 28,2010 | 07:50 AM
Just to comment on the validity of the photos...anyone who has spent enough time with birds can tell after viewing all of the photos, that these are most likely legitimate shots. My background and professional experience are enough to tell me that the bird is real.
Posted by Sunshine Girl on September 24,2010 | 12:43 AM
Truly devout birdwatchers would not readily disclose the location of surving birds. Those who are experienced ornithologists know enough to protect any surviving species of birds by: 1) Concealing the location and 2) immediately take steps to protect its habitat. Unfortunately as a former wildlife biologist I have found that the two basic requirements are not met with cooperation by the U.S. Forest Service. If there is private land involved the owners must be approached with caution as fear would set in and either the bird or birds (if a pair) would be quietely destroyed for fear of losing their land or property rights once word gets out into the public. Some would harvest standing timber earlier than scheduled due to the same reason. While conservationists can be very skilled at their specialty they also can be very clumsy with their (or lack of it) diplomacy with private landowners and ruin chances of preservation. If anyone suspects the presence of IB woodpeckers they would best work on controlling disturbance in the habitat ASAP.
Posted by Baron on September 23,2010 | 08:20 PM
Shaun, while you raise perhaps a valid point regarding the allocation of limited research $, to compare the Ivorybill sightings with those of bigfoot is not at all persuasive. The Ivorybill reports were made by credible observers of a species known to exist in this century which is obviously not the case with the alleged bigfoot sightings
Shaun's comments are correct. His Bigfoot comparative relates to human behavior traits. The Bigfoot isn't there, but it is seen regularly. One will see what they wish. It doesn't take much. It matters not if the IBWO is extinct. There will ALWAYS be sightings. And, by the way, those "credible" observers got it wrong, so virtually anyone can get it wrong, and they regularly do.
Posted by Mel on September 19,2010 | 08:23 PM
I am a personal friend of Nancy Tanner's and have seen the photos, as well as the film footage taken by Jim Tanner of the Ivory-billed nestling. I assure you that neither these photographs nor the nestling are fake. I can vouch for Mrs. Tanner's integrity and find the mere suggestion of such an accusation utterly absurd. It is unfathomable to me that someone would suggest such nonsense. The nestling did not fledge for another 12 days, so was only about half grown and would not have known how to perch. The film of the nestling is very interesting and can be seen by the public at Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. The fact that Mrs. Tanner found some negatives of the bird years after Dr. Tanner's death is really not unusual either, especially since the newly discovered photos are very similar to the older ones.
Posted by Debra Dalton on September 15,2010 | 10:02 PM
There can only be one way to solve this controversy. Go into the swamps and shoot one and bring them out. Easier than photos or video or sightings from experienced birders. And nobody can argue with the carcass of the bird itself, which can easily be examined up close.
That's what happened in 1932. Mason Spencer, an attorney and state representative, was listening to some folks arguing that the bird, which had no documented sighting prior to that since 1899, was extinct. He insisted it was not. He said he would prove it.
He walked into the bayous along the Tensas River near Tallulah and just shot you himself. As the book "Ghost Birds" says, "Until his gunshot brought it down this one ghost bird had been very much alive".
Maybe we just need another Mason Spencer to put an end to this argument once and for all.
Posted by Karen Webster on September 13,2010 | 11:03 AM
The head and feet are NOT the same in each shot. Look more closely at some of the shots later in the series. In some the wings are out, the feet are bent to a higer position, the toes are bent at different angles, the eye and beak are closed in one shot.
A bird that has been "fixed up" by a taxidermist cannot have its wings and "toes" moved like an old stop motion animation character. Look again, folks.
Posted by Greg on September 12,2010 | 07:35 AM
When I look at those pictures, it saddens me greatly how man has caused the extinction of so many precious creatures simply because of his relentless gluttony and greed. What a shame.
Posted by LMon on September 11,2010 | 02:30 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen the Ivory-billed Woodpecker lives. In a very swampy, quiet woods near my home he is safe. Sometimes I can still hear him. On rare occassions, when its very hot, he comes up from below to visit my garden.
Posted by anonomous on September 11,2010 | 05:57 AM
There isn't any evidence audio or visual that supports the reported sightings by Cornell. It was simply bad birding and then putting together a lot of bad evidence and pretending that made it good evidence. All creditable authorities have this bird listed as "definitely or probably extinct." Not one "sighting" has any photographic evidence and the video is quite frankly laughable. "When studied in several different ways" the same conclusion is reached that is the null hypothesis and therfore it is impossible to identify the bird as anything other than a bird. Cornell put forwarD faith based science of the worst sort. The conclusion was reach before the "evidence" was examined, observer expectantcy bias sums this up nicely. I recommend the following: THE POSSIBLE IMPACT OF OBSERVER BIAS ON SOME AVIAN RESEARCH BY DAVID F. BALPH and H.CHARLES ROMESBURG.
If the Ivory billed is ever photographered I suspect he will be sitting on the shoulder of bigfoot whilst he is taking tea with Elvis Presley and Lord Lucan! :-) Happy birding from the UK.
Posted by Stemginger on September 10,2010 | 04:30 AM
An intriguing take on this bird was developed by Russell Hill in his Edgar-nominated novel, THE LORD GOD BIRD, which came out a year ago. It's a novel about an obsessed young man who works hard to spot it. The book received rave reviews by birders and non-birders alike. (Full disclosure: I own the company which published the book. I hope that doesn't deter you from checking it out.)
Posted by Jack Estes on September 9,2010 | 01:20 PM
It is very low for people to comment on things they have no idea...none the less calling these photos hoaxes. I have thoroughly researched the subject, and yes, the photos are in fact true and do not contain a stuffed bird.
The sightings by Cornell are also true. There is good audio evidence. There was a video, which is controversial to many, but when studied in several different ways, the bird captured on it has to be an Ivory-billed. The Ivory-billed is still out there.
Posted by ColMatt on September 3,2010 | 03:45 PM
i too have been looking for the ivory billed woodpecker.....and long before the announcement from arkansas sightings. i live within a natl forest in louisiana that is ideal habitat if they are still here. i think there is a good chance they are...and i will continue to look for them... i am familiar with the tensas and what was the singer tract and there are old forests still and these birds would be hard to spot in them.....and i sure as heck hope i do .......then maybe some of the forest service"s polocies will change on how they manage "our" woods.....
Posted by c corley on September 3,2010 | 02:48 PM
Aside from normal digital processing, I do not suspect these images were altered, but the selection of which are shown together can make the bird look stiff or lively. I saw one image on another site that appeared to have the neck at a different angle, and the toe position on the right leg is different among the photos on this site.
All 14 images should be available to examine together.
Posted by Steven Patterson on September 3,2010 | 09:26 AM
Hello Folks. I have just now been made aware of this article by another family member. For those pondering the authenticity of the find or 'proof of life' I can assure you this young IB Woodpecker was alive. I am the great nephew of the guide J.J. Kuhn. Uncle Jenkins was not only the guide for Mr. Tanner, he was also the Parish Game Warden and a man of absolute integrity. He was also a devoted member of the Audubon Society. I heard the story of this little bird and how it was returned to its nest very much alive many times over the years. Hoaxing just wasn't part of his DNA. I'll gladly defer on the ornithological issues....
Posted by Neil Addison on September 2,2010 | 11:14 PM
I'm sorry. I have to agree w/ Dyolf and Amy. The head/neck angle is the same in every photo, as are the eyes and the beak opening. The legs are never extended and the feet are never grasping. In the 5th photo the bird is straggling his arm? I don't think so. A live bird would never sit in this position. And if it fell into this unlikely position, the wings would be extended for balance, even in an immature bird. Very suspect photos. Maybe that's why they were never published.
Posted by Joe on September 2,2010 | 03:59 PM
I agree its fake.
why would the bird so rare fly down and land on a man? and why would it be sitting on his back? it just doesnt make sense.
and yes the head and feet are the same in each shot
Posted by Ash on August 31,2010 | 12:52 AM
I know the author of the book and Mrs. Tanner, the widow of Mr. Tanner, who took these photos.
Mr. Tanner studied this bird for six years, and lived in the same home for 43 years. It is not impossible to imagine that these photos could be found in his home after years of being in a drawer.
The author studied the journals, kept at Cornell University, for four years.
The nestling pictured in the photo had never perched on a branch. It was in its nest and bolted from fear. The researchers took photos while it was on the ground.
Thus, it is awkward perching.
Please look at the appearance of a Pileated Woodpecker and you will see that the profile and eyes remain stately and erect. The Ivory-billed is much the same.
The author is not affiliated with Cornell, and Cornell is not seeking publicity or donations through this work.
I understand the controversy over whether this bird exists or not.
But I am appalled at the cynicism shown by anyone who would basically suggest 1. That Smithsonian Magazine would print an obviously altered or fake image and
2. That the author, who worked for years on this, and Mrs. Tanner would plot to put stuffed birds into a photo, or photoshop birds into fake photos, and have them printed.
These photos are REAL.
Posted by Karen Webster on August 30,2010 | 03:22 PM
Salem S.C. -- Whitewater Lake Ivory billed woodpeckers have always lived here ---- three on the trees going to the lake generally feed at about knee height scare the flip out of You as you walk past the trees You wount see them untill they take off HEARTBEATS !!
Posted by peter j Leonard on August 30,2010 | 03:16 PM
To my knowledge, no one has ever questioned the credibility of Tanner's photos or his account of the circumstances under which they were taken. But this skepticism does indicate just how high the evidentiary bar has been set for the "grail bird's" continued existence.
One of the most skilled master birders in Georgia says she saw a female ivorybill in the Wacissa/Aucilla river swamp complex in northwest Florida in the spring of 2007. She has told a few of us, including people who need to know (key state wildlife officials and the formal search teams) but does not otherwise discuss it. She has no interest in having her personal integrity or birding skills held up to public ridicule by the skeptics - some of whom have been remarkably harsh in their ad hominem attacks on the people who claimed to see the bird in Arkansas.
I am told that David Kulivan, the LSU student who made the 1999 Pearl River report, will no longer grant interviews or otherwise discuss his experience.
Posted by Chip Campbell on August 30,2010 | 12:13 PM
hello all,
I have been birding since I was a child so many years ago (40+) and I wept when I heard Cornell(a prestigious university especially for ornithology)had discovered an Ivory Bill in the Big Woods.At first I wanted to go but they said stay away so we can do our research.I have had a good life so I donated 5 figures to Nature Conservancy to help save this bird.
5 years have gone by and an Auburn(another great university) stated they found Ivory Bills in the florida panhandle Chocahatchee river.We did go canoe this area but did not find anything.Now Cornell and Auburn both have had little to say about their research and it has left many people wondering.I know the Ivory Billed was seen by experienced birders and the habitat is the nastiest around making it nearly impossible to get to some places.I am also an experienced birder and I still make ID mistakes out in the field.Out in the field trying to ID birds is much much different than iding birds in a classroom.
I am not bitter I donated the money but I do wonder what is/was the truth.Cornell's reputation is mud because it only appears they wanted to sell books.Now these new photos appear and a BOOK is coming out.I agree the photo does look fake and you would be surprised what you can do with photoshop these days.Truthfully I hope (I doubt it though) the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is still out there laughing at us....
a florida birder
Posted by Skeptic on August 28,2010 | 08:23 AM
I'm not often skeptical, but these photos seem to depict a stuffed bird. The beak and eyes are the same in each shot. The legs aren't in a perching mode, but rather straddle the arm. The head position is always the same, never tilted.
Posted by Amy Smallegan on August 27,2010 | 09:23 AM
IMHO that bird looks fake. Why isn't it trying to get away?
Posted by Dyolf on August 25,2010 | 03:09 PM
Shaun, while you raise perhaps a valid point regarding the allocation of limited research $, to compare the Ivorybill sightings with those of bigfoot is not at all persuasive. The Ivorybill reports were made by credible observers of a species known to exist in this century which is obviously not the case with the alleged bigfoot sightings.
Posted by Ted Theus on August 25,2010 | 09:53 AM
That just proves that Bigfoot is slightly less successful at staying hidden...
Posted by Jim on August 23,2010 | 07:05 PM
There have been more sightings of bigfoot in the last 10 years than of Ivory billed woodpeckers. The controversial 2005 sighting was likely mistaken, and the subsequent ones wishful thinking. A great deal of time and funding has gone down the ivory 'hole', it's time for more productive research.
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