Alachua Audubon had a program that day called "The Ivory Billed Woodpecker: The Search for Evidence in a Flooded Wilderness." A biologist, Justyn Stohl, presented a talk with slides about the effort of various groups to conclusively prove that this giant woodpecker, the third largest in the world, still survives.
Stohl was part of the latest research effort in the Chattahoochee Wilderness. In fact, he'd recently come out of the woods and mentioned how nice it was to have access to modern conveniences.
The latest search team did not bring back positive proof, alas, but there were some tantalizing reports. I'll talk about them in the next column.
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Time to go after Stahl for being a TB. Heard him speak in Gainesville, and that guy is a TB, thru and thru.
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/courses/biology/dmennill/lab.html
Here is a place to start. I didn't know that there were Acorn Woodpeckers in Gainesville. No wonder he thinks Ivorybills are in Florida as well.
That's interesting, I saw Justyn speak in Gainesville, and he didn't say whether he believed the IBWO was extinct or not. I got the impression that he found some of the sightings too convincingly described by his fellow searchers to be dismissed out of hand, but that's merely an impression; he's most certainly not a TB, and in fact he's now moved on to do some work in Africa. (And although he was a grad student at the University of Florida, he didn't look for any Acorn Woodpeckers there, but did his field work in California. It was his knowledge of woodpecker biology that got him the IBWO job, I think.)
Agreed with anon #3. I was in Gainesville too and Stahl came across as professional and objective. I get the sense that he's pretty doubtful but is also fair-minded abut giving the evidence a chance.
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