The keynote speaker will be John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. His provocative lecture title is “How ivory-billed woodpeckers (and other birds) will save the world.” He will speak on April 22, at 8 p.m.
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Would be kinda difficult for an IBWO to fly in & do an Underdog routine "here I am to save the day" if it didn't exist. Could Cornell be holding back recently secured, conclusive (heck, inconclusive!) documentation to be released at this event? Think about it: what a show-stopper it would be for Fitzpatrick to wheel out one of those super-big TV screens onstage. They lower the auditorium lights, cue the projector - and color video appears of a pair of IBWOs at a nest hole "in an undisclosed location". You see "white"; you see the proverbial Ivory bills. The male whacks on a tree; they do the long-awaited IBWO calls. Boom. Skeptics line up to eat crow. Donors queue up to write checks. Beauty, eh? I gotta say that I wouldn't have regretted my skepticism; I'd definitely give the project credit for perserverance. Wouldn't that make for a great day, though?
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