Update: A reader highlighted this quote (the bold font is mine):
"We'll never know if ivory-bills persist outside of Arkansas unless we undertake systematic searches of key areas, a task that should have been done decades ago," said Ron Rohrbaugh, director of the Lab's Ivory-billed Woodpecker Research Project.
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Holy $&^#!
1) "[Cornell] researchers will also be collecting data to help a team at the University of Georgia develop a model that will guide the search by indicating when an area has received adequate search effort."
ANSWER: Play tape at full blast. If no response from woodpecker, cross that square mile off the list. Simple, no?
2) "One of this season's exciting new initiatives is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s mobile search team. This team of four experts is traveling the southeast to states where other organized searches are taking place."
COMMENT: My GOD, the arrogance! Not that I'm saying *anyone* has been able to find living IBWOs... but does CLO really think its uberIBWO-searchers are more qualified than anyone else? Why, because none of them have never seen one either? Can't be better prepared than THAT! HO no.
3) "In addition to assisting those searches, the team will be assessing the probability that ivory-bills might still live in the region..."
COMMENT: Yup, because CLO shore can spot the IBWO habitat! They've had 100% success so far, right? Right?
4) ' "We'll never know if ivory-bills persist outside of Arkansas...'
ANSWER: Luckily, we know, now, that they don't persist *in* Arkansas! Seems like CLO has done a pretty thorough job of documenting that.
Man, WTF is this? Loonie tune time? Give me a break.
My Two Cents
I suggest Mallory Dock in Key West. They should be detectable during the green flash as they fly back from their seasonal home in Cuba.
20 years ago, Paul Butler of RARE helped to bring the St. Lucia Parrot back from extinction by painting up a VW microbus with SLPA images and blaring his "Save the Parrot" music from speakers on the roof.
CLO just needs a little imagination. Who knows?
"We'll never know if ivory-bills persist outside of Arkansas unless we undertake systematic searches of key areas, a task that should have been done decades ago," said Ron Rohrbaugh, director of the Lab's Ivory-billed Woodpecker Research Project."
Same old BS. "Nobody knows if they exist, because nobody ever looked for them." Fact: Since before Rorabaugh was born, and ever since, birders have devotedly followed up on IBWO reports, and have trudged and paddled the southern swamps and woods ad nauseum. These weren't college kids using grant money. These were skilled birders. Nobody ever found an IBWO.
Give it a rest with this phony worn-out mantra, Cornell.
"does CLO really think its uberIBWO-searchers are more qualified than anyone else?"
They really do. As a Cornell alum this makes me so sad.
Didn't they mean "persists outside CLO's delusions"?
"ummmmmmm.....the reason that people quit looking for Northern IBWP's much after the 40's was....I dunno.......maaaaybe because.......THEY BECAME EXTINCT!!!!!!!!
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