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More bird nonsense on Cryptomundo - this time from a comment.

An Amazon Kingfisher was spotted in Texas for the first sighting ever in the US. The blog also mentions a rare sighting of a Bare-throated Tiger-heron in Texas. That is all really interesting especially for the kingfisher. But the reader comment is stunningly strange...

dogu4 said:
Great news. A sign that the environmental regulations of the last few decades are beginning to pay off with improved habitat and animal protections and resulting in birds that we might now consider out-of-place returning to their original historic range, or expanding into suitable range that was previously closed-off to them. Any inside news on the rumors of recent Ivory Billed Woodpeckers?
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The Amazon Kingfishers have been making regular trips into the US and up until now they immediately turned around and returned home because the habitat and protections weren't quite right?
 
Remember when Loren got mad when I said the museum wasn't scientific and he objected to the term "swag"? Well, let's see what category this falls in.

I'm actually glad I missed it.

Bigfoot festival
 
idoubtit said:
Bigfoot festival
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From the article...

Steve Boyer and his brother Ryan Boyer were huge Bigfoot enthusiasts as kids when Bigfoot was really, well, big. It’s died down a lot since the heyday of Bigfoot movies, but they’ve imparted their enthusiasm in their children. Steve Boyer’s son Patrick wants to be a cryptozoologist like Coleman.

“People don’t think it’s real, but to me it is,” Patrick said. “And I’m going to prove someday it is.”
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[protestingwastedyouth]NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!~[/protestingwastedyouth]

Dad, get the kid some books on mammals, take him hiking to look for actual wildlife, and spare your boy a life of stupidity lest he end up selling plush toys at a B movie festival to help pay for the place where he keeps his rubber pterodactyls and Mothman mugs.

Boy: Hey, dad, what animals has Loren Coleman discovered?

Father: None, son. None...
 
William Parcher said:
The Amazon Kingfishers have been making regular trips into the US and up until now they immediately turned around and returned home because the habitat and protections weren't quite right?
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I don't know about that, but there is a sense that habitat restoration in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is allowing some subtropical creatures to reclaim former range. I'm not sure those ideas are well-founded. I think more likely is just that as birding as become so popular that many, many more well-trained eyes are watching everything that crosses the river than we ever had in the past. When we combine all that expert birdwatching with real-time communications via cell phones and Twitter, we have a recipe for more weird stuff to be reported than ever before.
 
The Shrike said:
I'm actually a member of the Ned Smith Center. I wrote to them to express my displeasure that they were having this event. No reply received.
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They sold out and got two weekends of newspaper exposure. I'm thinking that success is secondary to the few objections. I heard it was the director's idea? I heard this from someone else who is involved with the center.

I don't understand what the motives are for those bigger names who participated. You can't gain respect by hawking Quatchi and hugging a guy in a bigfoot suit. It looks totally silly. I'd have been mortified.
 
The Shrike said:
I don't know about that, but there is a sense that habitat restoration in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is allowing some subtropical creatures to reclaim former range. I'm not sure those ideas are well-founded. I think more likely is just that as birding as become so popular that many, many more well-trained eyes are watching everything that crosses the river than we ever had in the past. When we combine all that expert birdwatching with real-time communications via cell phones and Twitter, we have a recipe for more weird stuff to be reported than ever before.
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Of course I was being sarcastic because I thought dogu4 was talking nonsense. My initial opinion is that this is a wanderer/vagrant outside of its range and does not represent expansion of the species and that "environmental improvements" have nothing to do with this incident.

Attached is a map showing the approximate northern limits of the range for this species (red line) and the sighting location (blue arrow). Keep in mind that the Belted, Green and even Ringed Kingfishers have been living in this area all along. These species all represent about the same ecological niche and needs.

This bird was found "at Zacate Creek in downtown Laredo, Texas". Yeah in downtown. I guess it had little interest or need for wilderness.
 

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idoubtit said:
I don't understand what the motives are for those bigger names who participated. You can't gain respect by hawking Quatchi and hugging a guy in a bigfoot suit. It looks totally silly. I'd have been mortified.
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Coleman is whining again about how Bigfooters are being treated. It's about the post-event media coverage of the festival.
 
I don't understand how a person with any forsight can complain about post-event media coverage of a Bigfoot event. It's like Coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons being surprised when something goes horribly wrong. At least throwing rotten vegetables is passé.
 
Of course he is playing to his followers. It's the cultivation of a cult with yourself as the ringleader. Tell them they are misunderstood, mocked, maligned, marginalized and disrespected. Tell them you struggle and fight for them. He knows how to tweak his fans to make little tempests in teapots. We will all be vindicated when Bigfoot is confirmed. They will then know that you weren't a nutjob after all. Amen.

It would be ironic if Coleman got the respect from the media that he wants - but with a twist. How about if they paid great repect only to Bigfooters who regularly go out looking for Bigfoot. No interest in a museum and book guy. Give us Dahinden, not Coleman. He would poop bricks. LOL.
 
Coleman threw FORKER under the bus. Another example of Bigfooter v. Bigfooter.

I'm sure they would've interviewed Coleman, but do you think he or any of the other Bigfoot-Elite are going to submit to media coverage after the Henner Fahrenbach incident?
 
Bitter Monk said:
I don't understand how a person with any forsight can complain about post-event media coverage of a Bigfoot event. It's like Coyote in the Roadrunner cartoons being surprised when something goes horribly wrong. At least throwing rotten vegetables is passé.
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PLEASE come and post this on my blog. It's AWESOME!

Note: I would venture to say there is a correlation between my blog post and Loren writing about said topic. Mine was first and he comments on it but does not link to it (and thus give me traffic and supporters) this time.

Bigfoot Festival Serious?

Check out Loren's additional comments. Here's a great one!
As far as everyone I talked to, the major purpose of the Bigfoot costume was to fight breast cancer during the weekend. Too bad the media or you couldn’t have mentioned that.​

I was very nice and totally left that lie.
 
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kitakaze said:
Dad, get the kid some books on mammals, take him hiking to look for actual wildlife, and spare your boy a life of stupidity lest he end up selling plush toys at a B movie festival to help pay for the place where he keeps his rubber pterodactyls and Mothman mugs.
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I agree, apart from the bit about rubber pterodactyls, (speaking as the proud owner of a plastic Archaeopteryx)
 
Drewbot said:
Coleman threw FORKER under the bus. Another example of Bigfooter v. Bigfooter.

I'm sure they would've interviewed Coleman, but do you think he or any of the other Bigfoot-Elite are going to submit to media coverage after the Henner Fahrenbach incident?
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Is Coleman actually viewed as a Researcher at this point, or just a cryptozoological taking head?
 
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