At "A DC Birding Blog" John wrote
this in response to a Birder's World list of 20 most wanted birds:
...The first species [IBWO] seemed the most out of place to me. For all but a tiny group of researchers, the ivory-billed woodpecker that leads the list is largely hypothetical. All other species can definitely be seen, even if with difficulty in some cases...
That seems to represent a skeptical shift at that blog, where
this appeared in July 2005:
For now, at least, I tend to trust the Cornell team's judgment. They were the ones on the scene who saw the bird(s), and appear to be well-regarded scientists and birders who would be risking their reputations if they were proved wrong. So I am sure that they were careful in their analysis. But there needs to be some arguments back and forth, and perhaps further exploration of the area.
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......howdy neighbor......i saw the video.....hard to tell.....but the sound recordings......that proved it for me.
Speaking of blogs, it appears that birdchick.com is offline. A page comes up that says "This page is parked free, courtesy of POE Hosting."
Cyberthrush posted on his blog that Bobby Harrison is starting a non-profit foundation for continuing search for Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It can be find here. I wonder who will be the director?
The guys in the middle of this Arkansas debacle really are going to do everything in their power to extract careers out of this, aren't they.
Say it ain't so, Birdchick, say it ain't so!
Birdchick was the goo...err...glue...that held us together.
"They really need to be replicated in order to be able to say with any assurance that dolphins and elephants indeed as species are capable of recognizing themselves. Replication is the cornerstone of science," said Gallup, a professor at the State University of New York at Albany, who provided advice to the researchers.
A profound statement from an article titled "Mirror Test Implies Elephants Self-Aware."
"Replication is the cornerstone of science."
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