Frank Gill backs away

...according to The Birdchaser here:

Interestingly, there is a questionmark next to the rediscovery year in the table of rediscovered birds thought to be extinct for at least 50 years.

Gill sounded completedly convinced in this April '05 article (the bold font is mine):

Frank Gill, senior ornithologist at the Audubon Society, said the discovery “is kind of like finding Elvis.”

“There have been lots and lots of reports and many of them have been off but others have been possible,” Gill added. “But this time we got it.”