I got over 250,000 images two weeks ago and over 100,000 images this past week.Even if you believe in the ridiculous "they're always on the other side of a tree" theory, I wonder how you explain the perpetual failure to ever get an Ivory-bill photo using remote cameras.
By the way, I'd still like to know why no one can find an Ivory-bill feather in any of these alleged "hot zones". According to Birds of North America:
As with other woodpeckers, Ivory-billed appears to have had a single annual molt that occurred primarily in summer and fall.A couple of times since Cornell's announcement, I've stumbled across large black-and-white feathers in my yard that are almost certainly from Pileateds. After examining a photo of one of the feathers, an expert wrote:
It sure looks like a remex (flight feather) from a Pileated, the dorsal view of an outer secondary or inner primary from right wing.
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Why is my NPR station pushing the natural history musings of Julie Zickefoose after her IBWO "rediscovery" cheerleading and support of Fishcrow's insane ramblings?
Does anyone really care what she thinks about anything after her role in developing and perpetuating the fraud?
The blogs of her and her husband that include the most mundane of observations from two mundane lives are clearly marketing ploys to increase sales of their wares to urban liberals whose lives are even more mundane.
When she writes a book or airs a piece entitled "How we got it wrong" that examines how she and the rest of her crowd set ornithology back with their embrace of the flimsiest of evidence then I might want to read something she wrote. And I can assure you that when she thinks she can make money off such a book they will be pushing it on NPR.
I would gladly increase my donations to NPR pledge drives if they would apologize for their part in the "rediscovery".
The two biggest jokes in IBWO history.
1.)They're always on the other side of the tree.
2.)The Lunneau video is inconsistent with Pileated.
You got to love Hillcrow. He is a believer because "he saw the IBWO twice so far".
How frustrated he must be. He "knows" it's there. But a quarter of a million remote camera photos show nothing. None of his field workers can get a photo or video. No feather, not even a good 30 second study of a perched bird.
He's got nothing but his "belief". God this story deserves a good book. Tom Wolfe, where are you?
"He's got nothing but his "belief". God..."
Like any great spiritual leader severe tests of his faith only increase his resolve and zeal. Isn't this a good thing? At least he believes in SOMETHING, unlike those horrible IBWO atheists.
BirdForum is at it again.
From hummingbird: "And the very idea that a researcher would take someone who does not know the field into the field to look for a bird is rediculous!"
Uh, wasn't one of Auburn's sightings "verified" by audio evidence heard by a couple who each had something like 125 birds on their lists? This sure seems like people who "do not know the field", and certainly have no qualifications to be assessing the identity of sounds. Isn't Brian Rolleck a grad student? How well does he really "know the field"?
From MMinNY: "Most reports from minimally knowledgeable people can only be one of two things: PIWO or IBWO."
Didn't we just see a case where a "minimally knowledgeable" person got video of some birds that might have been IBWOs, Blue Jays, or Mississippi Kites?
These guys just can't seem to grasp anything that doesn't align with their preconceived views.
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