Notable Aspects of our Search
• Sixty percent of total search hours were logged by one individual, Brian Rolek.
• Brian has 23 sound detections and 10 sightings.
• Through July 2006, nine of fourteen visitors who spent more than 48 hours at the site detected Ivory-billed Woodpeckers...
Friday, February 02, 2007
33 Ivory-bill detections by a single searcher
Even if you've seen it before, this snippet from Hill's site is worth re-reading:
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CLO must love this FL circus- it makes their AR detections look extrememly conservative..
"• Sixty percent of total search hours were logged by one individual, Brian Rolek.
• Brian has 23 sound detections and 10 sightings.
• Through July 2006, nine of fourteen visitors who spent more than 48 hours at the site detected Ivory-billed Woodpeckers..."
The fact that they would actually advertize such "stats" is an excellent indication that they are completely out of touch with reality.
detected ... think about that.
When was the last time you went in the field and said you "detected" anything.
You detect poltergiests. You "see" birds. You "observer" birds, but you "detect" the paranormal.
No one has seen an ivory billed but they have "detected" an ivory billed.
I head kent calls in the Choctaw.... if I had closed my eyes I would have had a 'detection' of pretty good quality. However, I kept my eyes open long enough to see 3 blue jays flying out of the woods (kent-calling all the way)
You know, I am on the fence with this whole deal, though leaning more toward the skeptic side every day. But when I see this, I think - "yeah, that really is pretty ridiculous".
There really is a lot of garbage being published. The bark-scaling and cavity dimensions are the 2 most absurd. Here in NW Ohio, Pileateds are extremely local. Walking one of the woods where we know 1 pair of Pileateds live, there is all KINDS of sign that if encountered in LA or FL or AR, some would claim as "interesting".
My last shred of hope on this deal is that the sightings by individuals, or at least a couple of individuals are real. I would think that a Pileated would not really be too "confusable" with an IBWO. Because of this, I hold out hope...but am growing more frustrated after each update I read.
Amateur hour at the Ivory-billed improv.
When was the last time you went in the field and said you "detected" anything.
All the time, actually. When I perform focused surveys for sensitive bird species I typically report "detections" so as to not have to explain every time whether the organism was heard, seen, or both.
Of course, a "detection" should always refer to a legitimate encounter with the species in question rather than what one hopes or suspects it to have been. I have no faith that any of these IbWo "detections" qualify as such.
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