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Luneau to speak!!
It is true that one good picture is worth a thousand words but it is also true that a bad picture needs a thousand words to explain to the viewer what they seeing.
Given the number of frames of the Luneau video that require a detailed explanation I would think Luneau would have to do a great deal of talking to let people know what he thinks he sees in the video. Much easier if you can just put the image up on the screen and count to three while everyone in the room thinks “It’s an Ivory-billed Woodpecker!”.
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, when discussing pornography, wrote “I know it when I see it”. Luneau and the CLO crowd need to know the same is true for visual evidence that a once “extinct” species is now extant.
The Luneau video is a Pileated. There isn't a top field birder who says otherwise. Intellectually, the issue is settled.
If he's still out there plugging the video as an Ivory-billed, he's either left reality altogether or he's being dishonest. I vote the former.
"The 2004 rediscovery led to the only video ever taken of the rare bird."
I don't think I even need to explain where I'm going with this one.
I just looked at Luneau's www.ibwo.org.
Man, this guy is in total denial. He's still trumpeting the value of those moronic cardboard winged models. He's going to believe he took a video of Ivory-billed until the day he dies, no matter how many analyses done by more experienced people state that it's Pileated.
Looking at his website I felt pretty sympathetic for his plight and feel to some extent he is a victim of circumstance. Had the CLO/TNC crowd not made a big deal out of his video he would be just another person who might have photographed an IBWO but "was not taken seriously by professional ornithologists" which, the True Believers would have us believe, is the reason it may be too late to "save the species"
But when the CLO/TNC did take him seriously he simply did what they did - examine marketing options, set up a website that will bring in money from naive donors, etc.
His experience shows that being taken seriously by professional ornithologists can be the kiss of death (especially if the CLO is involved).
There is apparently no charge for admission for Luneau’s upcoming talk. Compare this to Hoose and Sparling charging $10 per head to 800 curious but easily manipulated souls in Seattle who were taken in by the TNC media hype..
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