There's some new "
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Search Team 2005-2006" information on Cornell's web site. Below are two excerpts with my comments (the bold font is mine):
Beth Wright, Volunteer Coordinator, Cache River NWR
Beth will be leading groups of six to eight volunteers at a time, focusing on the Bayou de View area of the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. These are the folks who will be hunkered down in a dozen or so blinds, hoping for an ivory-bill flyby to rock their world.
The fact that they are "hoping for a flyby" strikes at the very heart of the problem. We're into the
fourth Ivory-bill search season in Arkansas, and the "robust sightings" and video(s) have been uniformly poor. It is very nearly certain that "Elvis" has been seen well (perched) any number of times, and he's not an Ivory-bill.
David Luneau
During the last field season, David captured video footage of what many experts believe to be an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. He is a professor of Electronics and Computers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and serves as an advisor in the technical intricacies of capturing an ivory-bill on tape.
If the bird could ever be found, the "technical intricacies" would be minimal.
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