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We’ve had a few more ivorybill detections during the last week. Most notably, on Feb 1 Richard Martin a volunteer from Birmingham, AL heard what sounded to him like kent calls, and he managed to record about 10 putative kent calls with his video recorder. Some of these putative kent calls are faint but several of the nasal notes sound, to my ear, like ivorybill kent calls. They are not squeaking trees (it was a morning with little wind) or typical sounds of any other bird species that we have recorded in these woods. Blue Jays are fairly common in the vicinity of the recording spot, but the recorded sounds do not sound like Blue Jays to me and there are no typical Blue Jay sounds associated with the recorded nasal sounds. These recordings were made too far from any listening station to have been simultaneously recorded. The sound files with these putative kents will be posted later this week on Dan Mennill’s web site.
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Even Fitzcrow knew when to fall silent. But this Hillcrow is made of different material. He will have no plausible deniability. He is painting himself with the glow of IBWO discovery. When that glow finally turns to stink, Hillcrow will find himself standing in a muck of controversy that only exile to France will make bearable.
You heard it here first.
I have to agree. This guy appears to have left the realm of science and is firmly in the realm of advocacy. "To my ear?" What happened to the "science" of sonograms?
Don't expect anything contradictory to be published or posted, like that adhesion data is bogus. It will be all good news all the time.
Blue Jays are fairly common in the vicinity of the recording spot
I thought Blue Jays were supposed to be absent or rare in that area? What changed?
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