An "X Prize" for Ivory-bill proof?

I think there is very little hope that the Ivory-bill still lives, but for those with more hope, I think the X prize model is worth investigating (the bold font is mine):

The Ansari X Prize is a $10,000,000 prize offered as part of an international competition intended to jumpstart the space tourism industry and encourage private-sector development of rocket ships. The prize will be awarded to the first team of entrepreneurs and rocket experts that privately finances and builds a reusable spaceship that carries two people (or the equivalent weight) into space (100 kilometers or 62.5 miles altitude), returns them to earth safely, and repeats the achievement with the same vehicle within two weeks. Sponsored by the X Prize Foundation, with major funding from the Ansari family of Dallas, the Ansari Prize was inspired by the Orteig prize of 1927, which awarded the Spirit of St. Louis Organization $25,000 upon Charles Lindbergh's historic crossing of the Atlantic in 1927.

Although over two dozen teams from around the world tried to win the X Prize, none of them managed to reach space before SpaceShipOne won the prize by blasting through the atmosphere for the second time in one week on October 4, 2004.

Following SpaceShipOne's success, the X Prize Foundation and the World Technology Network announced a joint venture in which they would create a series of incentive prizes to help spur innovation and breakthroughs in a range of scientific areas such as medicine, environmental studies, energy, nanotechnology, and informatics.

If you had, for example, a well-publicized one million dollar prize for definitive proof of a living Ivory-bill, you could harness the power of an awful lot of hunters/fisherman/campers etc that already spend thousands or millions of hours in potential Ivory-bill country. With that kind of incentive, you would also inspire a lot of other people to specifically look for Ivory-bills and to thoroughly check out potential Ivory-bill sightings (taking a camera with them!).

Considering the amount of money currently being thrown at the "Ivory-bill", I think a $1 million prize for definitive proof actually makes some sense. (We've read that the cost of this year's Cornell search is $800,000, and there's another $10.2 million of Ivory-bill spending detailed here).