So much for scientific caution

You should read this entire article (the bold font is mine).

Some excerpts:

As a 14-year Alabama resident, Hill said he desperately wanted to find an ivory-bill in his home state...
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"After one weekend trip, we knew the bird was there," Hill said.

Like hunters who had located the territory of a trophy white-tailed deer or fishermen who had found the perfect ledge filled with big bass, Hill and his team kept their discovery quiet.
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While working in total privacy, Hill and his team had 14 encounters with the ivory-bill in a year's time. That's one for about every 15 days of work, but still quite good for a team seeking such a rare specimen.
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Hill said the 24-hour cameras are the ones most likely to get the historic shot -- the one that makes Auburn University synonymous with yet another majestic bird.

"I'd love to think that it would be some dramatic thing where a bird flies right in front of us and we get that perfect shot," Hill said. "But more than likely it will come from one of those thousands of photos shot by the automatic digitals."

One way or another, Hill is confident his team will get the shot it needs.

"This is not a belief that this bird is there," Hill said. "I know it. I've seen it. I believe it's just a matter of time before we'll be able to prove it."