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...