1. A quote from Cornell's web site, dated
4/28/05:
"Well, the fantasy is true," said Fitzpatrick. "This most magnificent of all the North American birds, Audubon's romantic bird of the deep southern forest, this spectacular red-crested bird with huge white wings that people the world over would die to come and see if only it still existed--this bird lives."
2. A quote put up on Cornell's web site in
June 2007:
“If there is even the smallest chance that ivory-bills survive, then our goal is to find them,” says Ron Rohrbaugh, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Ivory-billed Woodpecker Research Project.
(Thanks to
Ilya Maclean for pointing out these quotes.)
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What's the game plan? Fall back, regroup, play everything down, and never, ever, ever back down on the initial claim.
You can expect them to handle "evidence" quite differently than they did in the first years. The adjectives will become increasingly less confident.
"I guess the fantasy is just a fantasy."
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