Extensive recent pursuits in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and, in this case, Florida have produced a few tantalizing and probably valid reports but no proof in the way of video evidence. In this engaging tale of the search for the elusive bird, Hill (biology, Auburn Univ.) recounts how he and his colleagues may have found a population of ivory-billed woodpeckers in the swamps of Florida's panhandle. His depiction of the challenges of exploring the bottomland swamps and the technology of the search—remote audio and video sensing, GPS navigation, kayaks—brings to life the difficulties facing Hill's crew, who so far have achieved more sightings and gathered more audio evidence than any other group.A report from a Cornell searcher named "Henry Armistead" is linked here.
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"...Hill's crew, who so far have achieved more sightings and gathered more audio evidence than any other group."
And the winner of this year's Elvis Award for most delusional field effort goes to the gang out of Auburn who have obtained more sightings and audio evidence of an extinct species than any other research group.
The Fishcrow field effort still holds the record for the highest number of sightings per searcher and those sightings were obtained with far less squandering of conservation funds than the Auburn effort.
Auburn's award this year follows their "best supporting" award obtained last year for successfully drawing attention away from the Cornell embarrassment of 2005-6. Cornell is now able to point to at least one other institution of "higher learning" that has used zero solid evidence and a naive public to raise funds, sell books, etc.
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