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Old Feb 8, 2007, 10:01 am
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GoBears
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Westford MA - AA PLT, 1.5MM, Lifetime AC, AAdvantage since 1981
Posts: 360
AA started flying all those routes to XNA because they heard that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker had been rediscovered in the swamps of northwest Arkansas (true), and they were getting set for all the birders who were going to see it. But now that most ornithologists have debunked the story (also true), saying the guys who claimed to find the bird must have been high on Arkansas joyjuice, the flights will probably be empty except for Wal-Mart wonks. Darn, Mrs. GoBears and I were going to go and find that woodpecker!
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