Ken Rosenberg on Science Friday

Ken Rosenberg of Cornell was on NPR's Science Friday show yesterday. The archived audio is currently available here.

You should listen to the audio and form your own impressions, but to my ear, neither host Ira Flatow nor Rosenberg himself sounded completely sold on the rediscovery story. For example, Flatow talked about the Ivory-bill that "supposedly" has been spotted, and Rosenberg sometimes used the past tense when talking about the Ivory-bill.

Rosenberg played some ARU kent calls, failing to mention that several searchers reported hearing and seeing blue jays making sounds very much like this in this area. Afterwards, he said "...we, um, believe they may very likely be an Ivory-billed Woodpecker". I think his tone and delivery belied his words.

I also thought it was interesting that Rosenberg referred to the rediscovery story as starting "about a year ago", in early February 2004. Another notable tidbit was his referring to Cornell's sight records as "well-documented".