"There is widespread thinking that leaves makes ivorybill hunting much tougher and that everyone should call it quits when the trees have leaves"
The "large woodpecker experts" have never explained why it is so easy to find and photograph Campephilus in Neotropical forests despite year-round leaves, heat, snakes, and mosquitoes
"It’s very frustrating and somewhat inexplicable to consistently hear what sound like ivorybills but to be unable to sight the birds or document them with cameras"
I can think of an obvious explanation...
"Leaves make seeing cavities much tougher"
These jokers are the first birders ever to look for cavities rather than the birds themselves. Ask yourself, when you are birding do you search for nests FIRST?
"If we want to put this in cynical terms"
We certainly appreciate that. Thanks. Saved us the trouble.
"Some of the best ivorybill sightings by Brian Rolek and Tyler Hicks in 2005 and 2006 were made when trees were fully leafed out"
Nothing looks more like an IBWO than a male Anhinga in the shade
"It’s going to be a long April and May for the searchers"
Actually, its been a long 63 years and counting...
It’s very frustrating and somewhat inexplicable to consistently hear what sound like ivorybills but to be unable to sight the birds or document them with cameras.
Hello! Earth to Hillcrow. Earth to Hillcrow. Hello!
Anyone reading Hill's updates and thinking seriously about sending their child to Auburn should be considered an unfit parent.
Academic institutions clearly like faculty that bring in funding but if the funding is based on deluded fantasies it is important to hide those from the general public. Hill's musing expose his lack of respect for both ornithology and logic and while Cornell and the CLO may have the PR machine to cover up the likes of Fitzcrow, Auburn clearly does not.
Concerning the continuing saga of Professor Hill, I have to wonder how much academic research ain't worth the 200 dollars of paper that is utilized to write up this stuff.
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"There is widespread thinking that leaves makes ivorybill hunting much tougher and that everyone should call it quits when the trees have leaves"
The "large woodpecker experts" have never explained why it is so easy to find and photograph Campephilus in Neotropical forests despite year-round leaves, heat, snakes, and mosquitoes
"It’s very frustrating and somewhat inexplicable to consistently hear what sound like ivorybills but to be unable to sight the birds or document them with cameras"
I can think of an obvious explanation...
"Leaves make seeing cavities much tougher"
These jokers are the first birders ever to look for cavities rather than the birds themselves. Ask yourself, when you are birding do you search for nests FIRST?
"If we want to put this in cynical terms"
We certainly appreciate that. Thanks. Saved us the trouble.
"Some of the best ivorybill sightings by Brian Rolek and Tyler Hicks in 2005 and 2006 were made when trees were fully leafed out"
Nothing looks more like an IBWO than a male Anhinga in the shade
"It’s going to be a long April and May for the searchers"
Actually, its been a long 63 years and counting...
It’s very frustrating and somewhat inexplicable to consistently hear what sound like ivorybills but to be unable to sight the birds or document them with cameras.
Hello! Earth to Hillcrow. Earth to Hillcrow. Hello!
Anyone reading Hill's updates and thinking seriously about sending their child to Auburn should be considered an unfit parent.
Academic institutions clearly like faculty that bring in funding but if the funding is based on deluded fantasies it is important to hide those from the general public.
Hill's musing expose his lack of respect for both ornithology and logic and while Cornell and the CLO may have the PR machine to cover up the likes of Fitzcrow, Auburn clearly does not.
Anonymous Marcus Ben Karkis;
Concerning the continuing saga of Professor Hill, I have to wonder how much academic research ain't worth the 200 dollars of paper that is utilized to write up this stuff.
File it and then recycle it, please.
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