Kenny Chesney

Though the couple's split is amicable, Zellweger cites fraud as her reason for the annulment. More information and the song can be found on the NPR website. I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women." [2] gu7tgo;gougo; Their annulment was officially finalized in late December 2005, putting an end to speculation that the couple was planning to start over. National Public Radio interviews concerning the rediscovery of the species were conducted with residents of Brinkley, Arkansas, and then shared with musician Sufjan Stevens who used the material to write a song titled "Lord God Bird". None of those things are true. The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is sometimes referred to as the Grail Bird or the Lord God Bird (a name shared with the Pileated Woodpecker). According to People Magazine, Chesney was upset and responded to these rumors by stating: "They've done nothing short of calling me gay and her a whore. Others have independently come to the same conclusion, and publication of independent analyses may be forthcoming...For scientists to label sight reports and questionable photographs as “proof” of such an extraordinary record is delving into “faith-based” ornithology and doing a disservice to science.[8].

[1] Fueled by numerous internet reports, some have speculated that Zellweger discovered Chesney was actually gay. Prum, Robbins, Brett Benz, and I remain steadfast in our belief that the bird in the Luneau video is a normal Pileated Woodpecker. Zellweger cited "fraud" as the reason in the related legal papers. In a paper published in The Auk in January 2006, Jerome Jackson expressed skepticism of the Ivory-bill evidence:. On September 15, 2005, after only four months of marriage, they announced their plans for an annulment. The Committee is waiting for unequivocal proof that the species still exists. Chesney had previously commented that Zellweger was his favorite actress, and he had written a song, "You Had Me From Hello", based on her line from Jerry Maguire. The ABA Checklist Committee has not changed the status of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker from Code 6 (EXTINCT) to another level that would reflect a small surviving population.

The pair met in January 2005 at a tsunami relief benefit. On page 13 of the American Birding Association publication "Winging It" (Nov/Dec 2005), it says:. Virgin Islands. Prum, intrigued by some of the recordings taken in Arkansas' Big Woods, said the evidence thus far is refutable.[7]. John in the U.S. In December 2005, Richard Prum's position was presented this way:. On May 9, 2005, Chesney married Renée Zellweger on the resort island St. Some skeptics, including Richard Prum, believe the video could have been of a Pileated Woodpecker [6].

In January 2005, Chesney released the album Be As You Are: Songs from an Old Blue Chair, supporting the album with his "Somewhere in the Sun" tour and in November 2005, Chesney released his second album of the year The Road And The Radio. Cornell could not say with absolute certainty that the sounds recorded in Arkansas were made by Ivory-billeds[5]. He won the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year honor in 2004. In August 2005, despite the arguments for the existence of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, questions about the evidence remained. While some of Chesney's music shows the obvious influence of John Mellencamp and Jimmy Buffett (a point critics are quick to note), he often performs several traditional country songs at his shows (particularly, music from George Jones). But the thrilling new sound recordings provide clear and convincing evidence that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker is not extinct. Notable number twos include "That's Why I'm Here" (1998), "Young" (2002), "Big Star" (2003), "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem" (2003) and "The Woman With You" (2004). We were very skeptical of the first published reports, and thought that the previous data were not sufficient to support this startling conclusion.

Other number one hits included "How Forever Feels" (six weeks in 1999); "The Good Stuff" (2002); "There Goes My Life" (2004); and "When the Sun Goes Down" (a duet with Uncle Kracker in 2004). Yale ornithologist Richard Prum stated:. He hit number one for the first time with "She's Got It All" in August 1997; the song spent three weeks atop Billboard magazine's country singles chart. However, after reviewing new sound recordings from the White River of Arkansas supplied to them by the Cornell team that reported the rediscovery, they announced in August 2005 that they had concluded that the bird has indeed been rediscovered and withdrew their paper. However, in 1996, he scored the top 5 hit, "Me and You," and returned again with "When I Close My Eyes" in early 1997. In June 2005, ornithologists at Yale University, the University of Kansas, and Florida Gulf Coast University submitted a scientific article skeptical of the initial reports of rediscovery. The follow-up, "All I Need to Know," also reached the Top 10, but follow-ups were not so successful. There are stories from when the species was more abundant of adult birds abandoning their nests and young simply because they were being watched.

His first major hit was "Fall in Love," which reached the Country Top 10 in 1995. This is exactly what birders have been encouraged not to do by experts to avoid disturbing the birds. . A current concern is that many bird enthusiasts will rush to the area in an attempt to catch a glimpse of this rare bird. Chesney is known for his laid back style of country music. It describes the potential for a thinly distributed population in the area, though no birds have been located away from the primary site. Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney (born March 26, 1968 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is a popular country music singer and songwriter, known for such works as No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems and When the Sun Goes Down. The report also notes that drumming consistent with that of Ivory-billed Woodpecker had been heard in the region.

2004 CMT Male Video of the Year: "There Goes My Life". That same video included an earlier image of what was believed to be such a bird perching on a Water Tupelo (Nyssa aquatica). 2004 CMT Hottest Video of the Year: "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems". A very large woodpecker was videotaped on April 25, 2004; its size, wing pattern at rest and in flight, and white plumage on its back between the wings were cited as evidence that the woodpecker sighted was an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 2004 CMA Album of the Year: When The Sun Goes Down. The secrecy permitted The Nature Conservancy and Cornell University to quietly buy up Ivory-billed habitat to add to the 120,000 acres (490 km²) of the Big Woods protected by the Conservancy. 2004 CMA Entertainer of the Year. About fifteen sightings occurred during the period (seven of which were considered compelling enough to mention in the scientific article), possibly all of the same bird.

2005 CMT Male Video of the Year. This report led to more intensive searches there and in the White River National Wildlife Refuge undertaken in deepest secrecy—for fear of a stampede of bird-watchers—by experienced observers over the next fourteen months. 2005 ACM Entertainer of the Year. One of the authors, who was kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Monroe County, Arkansas, on February 11, 2004, reported on a website the sighting of an unusually large red-crested woodpecker. A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on April 28, 2005. The expedition was inconclusive, however, as it was determined that the recorded sounds were likely gunshot echoes rather than the distinctive double rap of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker [4].

The exact source of the sound was not found because of the swampy terrain, but signs of active woodpeckers were found (i.e., scaled bark and large tree cavities). In the afternoon of January 27, after ten days, a rapping sound similar to the "double knock" made by the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was heard and recorded. In a 2002 expedition in the forests, swamps, and bayous of the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area by Louisiana State University, biologists spent 30 days searching for the bird [3]. In 1999, there was an unconfirmed sighting of a pair of birds in the Pearl River region of southeast Louisiana by a forestry student, David Kulivan.

This assessment was later altered to "critically endangered" on the grounds that the species could still be extant [2]. Many ornithologists believed the species had been wiped out completely, and it was assessed as "extinct" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1994. bairdii), after a long interval, was in 1987; it has not been seen since. p.

The last reported sighting of the Cuban subspecies (C. The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was listed as an endangered species on March 11, 1967, though the only evidence of its existence at the time was a possible recording of its call made in East Texas. By 1944 the last known Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a female, was gone from the cut-over tract (Smithsonian p 98). By 1938, only 20 or so individuals remained in the wild, located in the old-growth forest called the Singer Tract in Louisiana, where logging rights were held by the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company, which brushed aside pleas from four Southern governors and the National Audubon Society that the tract be publicly purchased and set aside as a reserve.

The bird is shiny blue-black with extensive white markings on its neck and on both the upper and lower trailing edges of its wings. It measures from 48 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) in length and 450 to 570 g (1.0 to 1.25 lb) in weight, with short legs and feet ending in large, curved claws. imperialis) of western Mexico, another rare species which is very likely to be extinct. The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is the second-largest woodpecker in the world, slightly smaller than the closely related Imperial Woodpecker (C.