In this issue, Jackson's rebuttal is about four pages in length, while Fitz et al's rebuttal is a couple of paragraphs long.
Here's one paragraph from Jackson:
In their rebuttal to Jackson (2006a), Fitzpatrick et al. (2006a) dwelt on semantics rather than implications, used quotations out of context, exaggerated the significance of their data, and used untruths and half truths as weapons of mass deception seemingly targeted at a public audience. I will not dissect details of their rebuttal except to demonstrate examples of their approach.Jackson's original Auk commentary is available here. Fitz et al's original rebuttal is here.
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So CLO is still trying to defend their position? Are they still trying to defend the video? How about the sound evidence? I can't wait to read this because I'd love to see what they think is still compelling evidence.
Jesu christo, I don't think Jackson is getting anymore invitations for cocktails in Ithaca.
How can one little ol' extinct bird so rend the ornithological space/time fabric so easily?
I shall consider this over a martini tonight, extra dry...two olives.
The Auk
What a squawk
Its papers ought
Not be about not
And argument distraught
About birds fraught
With overwrought
Speculation begot
Of a professor’s thought
Until a bird’s shot
It’s all for naught.
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There never was an IBWO in the Cashe or White River in this century.
Thanks Jerry.<<<
Hello methinks, I am sure you find it amusing when you find inconsistancies in a single statement or paper. In the same manner I find your statement causing chuckles in its conclusions WITH NO REFERENCES TO ANY STUDIES or summarization of historical, organized searches. Indeed you provide no suporting data of any kind for your sweeping statement on the Cache/White.
A cursory reveiew or introduction to IBWO literature will reveal that Jerome Jackson hypothesized that IBWO moved NORTH from the destroyed Singer Tract through and intact forest corridor (see below). There are also several other reports that are worth discussing before any sweeping conclusions are made. Of course if someone is using a magic 8-ball for coming up with your summaries I understand.
>>When I had my possible encounter with the Ivory-bill near the mouth of the Yazoo River in 1987, I thought it made sense. Ivory-bills in the Singer Tract in the 1940s either died there or went somewhere else. I preferred to think that they moved on. As the Ivory-bill flies, the swamp forests near the junction of the Yazoo and the Mississippi were not much more than 30 miles from the Singer Tract, and at the time, a corridor of continuous forest habitat lay between the two areas. J. Jackson
thanks Fred V
Well I'm down to 90%. If nothing comes this year or next it won't look good. Don't know if my decrease will accelerate or slow down.
Fred V.,
Sounds like you're thinking about the 20th century. Methinks said "There never was an IBWO in Cache or White in THIS century." implying that Cornell's recent reports of sightings were misidentifications. Can't be proved but without proof that IBWO persists it is not an unreasonable assumption.
I'm surprised that Jackson still cares.
Anonymous said...
"I'm surprised that Jackson still cares."
Good point. With "IBWO expert" now reduced to the same status of rodeo clown why would anyone really want to be involved with the species.
From the Lord God Bird to the Fraud God Bird in less than 24 months. Thanks CLO/TNC for honoring our fallen species.
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