Subject: TV birding
Date: Jun 19 03:50:30 1999
From: Jim McCoy - jfmccoy at earthlink.net


TV as in television, not turkey vultures.

Has anyone seen the latest Planters ad? The "plot" is that three guys spot
an acorn woodpecker, which one of them confidently identifies as
"Dryocopus pileatus". They consider offering it some of their Planters
peanuts, but one of them says that woodpeckers don't eat peanuts. Our
avian hero proceeds to peck a silhouette of the Planters peanut man out
of a wall. It's a variation of an earlier commercial done with a beaver.

In case you didn't already know or haven't divined it, the Latin name
applies
to the pileated woodpecker. Close, by television standards of accuracy...

Jim McCoy
jfmccoy at earthlink.net
Redmond, WA