http://www.birdersworld.com/brd/default.aspx?c=a&id=972"The first birder was paddling through a flooded forest in Arkansas. His story is familiar to everyone: Looking up from his kayak, he spotted a giant woodpecker last documented in this country in 1944 and presumed extinct. A grail bird. The second birder was visiting the rocky headlands of Nova Scotia. When he scanned an expanse of stunted vegetation, he saw a shorebird last definitively recorded in 1963. Another grail bird. Whether the birds were in fact what the two birders called them -- an Ivory-billed Woodpecker and an Eskimo Curlew -- we leave to the records committees. Our article, written by the second birder himself, reminds us how an expert conducts him- or herself in the presence of the exceptional, and that the exceptional can happen at any time. -- The Editor"
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