Check out this Birder's World article by Geoff Hill.
A book by Hill called "Ivorybill Hunters: The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness" is due out early in 2007.
A related Birdchaser blog post is here.
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I have never heard a double-knock before, and it is not a sound that an individual with ears for birds is likely to overlook. It is a striking sound. Tyler and Brian were chatting a hundred feet away from me and didn't hear it.
Not a sound likely to be overlooked, but 2 birders a hundred feet away missed it? Huh?
Oh, Dr. Hill - What in the world do you mean by "success"? Don't you simply want to determine whether or not the IBWO is present in an area or not?
With such obvious agenda-driven research you clearly can't be an unbiased observer nor can you give your Auburn University team ("the biggest and best-funded Ivory-bill search in 2007") a feeling that they will be "successful" if they don't see an IBWO. And you just know that all those eager observers don't want to get anywhere near the vicinity of "failure".
Oh and by the way the world is going to hell, in case you didn't notice, so even if you gain what you consider "success" you will be celebrating in a steadily declining natural world that happens to still contain IBWO but also contains a conservation community that will say most anything is important in order to get funding.
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