Good photographic documentation

I've touched on this topic before, but it may be useful to again check out some good bird photographs to gain some perspective on just how lousy the Cornell pictures are.

At this link, there are many examples of the high-quality bird photos that are regularly captured these days.

After you've enjoyed that "eye candy" for a while, take a look at these blobs. Optimists might interpret some of these as the best images in decades of a living Ivory-bill; I'd say it's far more likely that all the blobs are just out-of-focus dead branches or other vegetation.