"The Thing With Feathers"

As Rachael said, I am not much of a bird person either. I have always been interested in animals but never birds. I found this article to be interesting because of Sparling's passion for the bird. Sparling and his fellow colleagues would go to any extreme to find the ivorybilled. Sparling would spend numerous hours looking for the ivory billed and pretty much dedicated his life to finding it. It helped his credibility when other colleagues of his spotted it to make it seem realistic and not crazy. As far as Rachael's question, I think if spotted an ivory billed woodpecker I would be able to go around and tell people about it. I would tell people and describe the situation in great detail to make it credible and real and if people don't believe my story that is ok because I would know the truth to it. Even if some people don't believe your story some people will, and this could possibly open the door to more sightings of the bird. As far as the passion and time that Sparling invests in spotting the ivorybilled, I have my passions and things I obsess over, but these things do not take over my life. I do not think I could dedicate my whole life to something like Sparling did finding the woodpecker. Overall, I found this article to be interesting because of Sparling's quest to find the bird and the extremes he took to spot the bird and make people believe that it was still out there.