David A. Sibley, one of the country's top bird experts, said today that the woodpecker that appears fleetingly in a blurry videotape taken in an Arkansas swamp, in a discovery that electrified the world of birding last year, was not an ivory-billed woodpecker after all.
Instead, Mr. Sibley and three colleagues write in the journal Science, the bird is a common pileated woodpecker, and there is no conclusive evidence that the near-mythical ivory bill has escaped extinction.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
New York Times article on Sibley's paper
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Not difinitive! I agree. That says a lot.
Is this the beginning of back tracking? I guess the next 12 months will tell. Does a good photo/video appear or is this all a waste of time.
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