A field technician from Michigan working on this year’s search for the bird posts her field journal online.Could the author be referring to this "journal",
which has only one entry (from early November)?
“Everything is open and aboveboard,” Ken Rosenberg, director of conservation sciences at the Cornell laboratory, said in a recent interview about this year’s search. “I don’t think we have too many secrets this year.”Rosenberg's view doesn't seem consistent with these words from the Birdchick, an official Cornell searcher.
Back to today's Democrat-Gazette article:
“We need to locate the bird, locate a roost,” said Connie Bruce, a spokesman for the Cornell Lab said. “We’re scientists, so there has to be evidence.”
If a photograph or video evidence of the bird is obtained, such information would be made public, Bruce said. “If there was any evidence we had to show the public and press, we’d be shouting it right now.”
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I think what he meant was "there's no information to keep secret."
If they haven't found anything
new after a massive 2 mos.+ search, it would appear unlikely that any "new" evidence will surface this year. They must have
covered the entire "Big Woods"
ecosystem by now. I can't
imagine how a group of Ivory-bills
(or even a single bird) could
avoid the army of searchers
(both official and unofficial)
that have been present in
Arkansas this winter.
Well things can change too. Suppose an IBW nesting sight proved to be rather close to a major access or trailhead. Or suppose it's true that teams are checking other areas.
It's a stretch for the Big Woods, I agree. So they could change their motivations after the fact.
So lack of news doesn't mean anything.
And neither does rumor, of course.
Paul Sutera - New Paltz, NY
Sure, things can change, but lack of news doesn't mean anything? According to Cornell, they don't have anything so far. That's pretty significant to my way of thinking.
The lack of news isn't necessarily predictive, but apparently it's a pretty good indication of what's turned up to date. If skepticism isn't mounting, I think it should be.
The "No news is good news" adage doesn't apply here.
No news to me is not good news at all. It appears the ghost bird has eluded man again if in fact there is a ghost bird.
What good would it do the bird, the public cannot be trusted on this one.
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