As of January 21, they still hadn't made it to Geoff Hill's search area to follow up on that alleged December 24 sighting by Tyler Hicks.
Note these excerpts from January 19:
...The start of weekend traffic and hunters picked up today which made the woods feel like a playground. Dogs were running around everywhere barking their heads off while gunshots rang out in every direction...Seven boats went by me in the morning while I was on small sloughs in the forest. I was very surprised that they could make it around on these small bodies of water, but it also let me know I didn’t have to worry about pulling the canoe over a log. My strategy for the day became to let the dogs and hunters flush an Ivory-billed Woodpecker to me.
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Good point, Tom. Does anybody really believe anymore?
Tyler has fantastic views of an Ivory-billed and there is no intensive search? Just treated as another random sighting.
Do you think a lot of these hired birders have doubts about the whole thing but are just enjoying a paid job to travel the swamps of America and bird?
You have to give the searchers credit for being out in what sounds like a war zone. That's dangerous work. I've birded areas with hunters and dogs present, and it's not fun.
I think the searchers would garner significantly more respect if the people leading the projects would just shut up and stop promoting hints and puzzles as excellent evidence.
Do your searches. Gather your data. Analyze what you've found. Just don't overstate the significance of what you obtain simply because you can't obtain what you want.
You have to give the searchers credit for being out in what sounds like a war zone.
War zone? Dangerous work?
Another enviro shows his ignorance of hunting. The Ivory-billed is extinct.
This whole fiasco has degenerated into a practical joke on donors and the federal government.
Do you think a lot of these hired birders have doubts about the whole thing but are just enjoying a paid job to travel the swamps of America and bird?
Well, someone finally came right out and said it! It was only a matter of time. I knew it would be old Anon. He's pretty perceptive.
Wily birders who have created a paycheck for themselves, huh? Grant-writers, hangers-on, probably too experienced to be believers, but willing to take the TB's paycheck, just for mucking around in the swamps, measuring cavities, recording kent thingys.
I guess they gotta provide a tantalyzing big-woodpecker-lotta-white-in-the-wings story once in a while.
All in a day's work.
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