Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Small article on David Luneau

From today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article on David Luneau (subscription may be required):
Mr. Luneau copied the tape onto his computer and watched it repeatedly. He was hopeful.

Then he had a thought: He backed up the videotape on the chance that the camera had seen the bird before they had, and there it was, a few seconds of a blurry black-and white image on a tupelo tree.
Which is likely a branch stub.
To the untrained eye, the image of the ivory bill is as difficult to discern as a broken blood vessel on a X-ray.

“Most people, when they first see it, are doubtful,” he says.

At first, Mr. Luneau didn’t tell anyone outside his close circle. Ornithologists are a skeptical and sometimes brutal bunch. “You have one chance to blow your credibility,” Mr. Luneau says.
Note that some familiar names were also involved with the Pearl River "double-rap/gunshot" mistake a few years ago...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

...Which is likely a branch stub.

To the untrained eye, the image of the ivory bill is as difficult to discern


Just like a cloud formation where you can't see it's a unicorn until someone points it out to you, but once you stop believing it, it goes away.