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“This is a really charismatic bird,” said Ron Rohrbaugh, project director of the ivory-billed woodpecker Search Team at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. “Anyone who’s ever opened a bird guide book will recognize it.”
These guys are the master's of irony, having basically told the world that the AUTHOR of the bird guide book was not capable of making an accurate ID ... they go on to tell us how ANYONE can make the ID ... and later in the article they hint that "3rd graders will be able to opperate the camera" ... that sounds like a good way to wind this down folks.
"This is a really charismatic bird," said Ron Rohrbaugh, project director of the ivory-billed woodpecker Search Team at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. "Anyone who’s ever opened a bird guide book will recognize it."
Have any of these guys even led a bird walk? Or spoken to anybody who works at a nature center? This is an absurd statement and anybody who knows anything about what actually happens in birding would understand that.
In 2004, four seconds of video were captured of an ivory-bill launching from a tree. Initially, many believed the blurry bird captured on tape was actually a Pileated woodpecker, which has markings similar to the ivory-bill. Careful analysis by Cornell ornithologists revealed the bird was in fact an ivory-bill. In order to prove this finding without a doubt, however, high-resolution video footage showing the details of the bird must be captured.
"Initially" many believed "the blurry bird captured on tape was actually a Pileated".
"Careful analysis" ... with painted stiff cardboard wings.
Was "in fact an ivory-bill", but to "prove this finding without a doubt" (so much for "in fact") they need "high-resolution video footage showing the details of the bird".
How can you get so many things wrong in one paragraph?
"Anyone who's ever opened a bird guide book will recognize it."
Excuse me, but didn't Will Turner just criticize (in Birding) most field guides for NOT illustrating Ivory-bills or other extinct or presumed extinct species?
"Even if we don’t find the ivory-bill, what this is really about is a new way of doing science..."
It certainly is!
so why don't you guys who think you know it all go down there and do it the right way?
"so why don't you guys who think you know it all go down there and do it the right way?"
Because there are as many IBWO where I am right now as there are "down there". That's what great about IBWO fieldwork. You can save all that money on travel and logistics and get as many valid sightings out of your kitchen window as you can get from a blind in the middle of "prime habitat".
I do wear camo while sitting in the the breakfast nook since it increases the sense of adventure. Please donate to my coffee and donut fund so my important work can continue.
"so why don't you guys who think you know it all go down there and do it the right way?"
Because the species (or subspecies) went extinct in 1944 or soon thereafter. If I wanted to search for extinct birds I'd scope for Labrador Ducks from beaches near my home.
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