Speaking of television birding, Anyone else out there watch All Bird TV on
Animal Planet? It's a half hour with ornithologist, Ken Dial as he birds all
around the world. He's just one crazy funny twitch but the show is very
informative and you get to see some pretty great birds.
Rahne
Federal Way
"Time is just the stream I go a'fishin' in."

Henry David Thoreau

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim McCoy <jfmccoy at earthlink.net>
To: 'Tweeters' <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 3:50 AM
Subject: TV birding


> 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
>
>
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