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Well, I'm convinced now. Documentation doesn't get any better than that.
Apparently.
Chuckle all you want Bob, but the skeptics will have the last laugh. Put up or shut up. Gee, how is it that a group of decent birders like Harry Armistead, Bob Ake et al. spent considerable time in there and had no luck? But people like Bob go in and and they get it after only a short time (but no photos, of course).
I'm compiling a database of birders who claim to have seen IBWO, and I will consider to be SUSPECT any future reports by those observers of ANY unusual species that isn't verified. That includes you, BOB (chuckle, chuckle).
I guess that Hill et al have given up on publishing written field notes or even mentioning them on their web updates. They certainly never said anything about 10 observations by one person. I wonder if every observation is under the 3 second limit.
Maybe they decided to give up even talking about the sightings and are waiting until they get a photo. Of course, they still have the unproven kent calls that they announce regularly. Weird.
Tyler Hicks a fine look at a female on Dec. 24(including a good look at the bill)... Someone having observed the bill color is as good as you can get without a
photo, and photos can lie too.
Here's what he said “She looked at me and I looked at her and in a millisecond she was gone.”
Are looks that last for a millisecond "as good as you can get without a photo?"
"Someone having observed the bill color is as good as you can get without a photo"
Male anhingas have an ivory bill too
Wouldn't the sighting have been a little better if the bird had been seen simultaneously by multiple well-known birders not on an IBWO rediscovery teams' payroll?
I suppose the Hill teams' Florida Panther sighting was as good as it possibly could have been too?
I thought good sightings should be documented by proper notes submitted to a formal records committee, not supported solely by unbelievable anecdotes and self-contradictory "field" sketches placed online
Tyler's look at the bill is good. He's sure it was ivory colored: It was the same color as his crack pipe.
Didn't Tyler Hicks win American Idol?
No, wait, that was TAYLOR Hicks.
Never mind.
It would be nice if someone would display an online "WATCH LIST of IBWO OBSERVERS and their PROFESSIONAL ORNITHOLOGIST FACILITATOR-CONSPIRATORS." It needs to be advertized that any rare bird sightings or scientific research conducted by these people should be considered highly suspect and should be subjected to much more intense scrutiny...
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