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Wow:
I’m not writing this post to defend the paragraph in my book. To the contrary, I’m writing to acknowledge that I should have left mention of this out of the book. I wrote this paragraph without interviewing Brown or Sanders. In subsequent conversations with both Brown and Sanders, they told me that there were no confessions or retractions by them regarding their bird sightings. The retractions in the above citation were made by the editors of Audubon Field Notes. This is ancient birding history, and there was no need for me to delve into this issue since it was tangential to the topic being discussed. There are understandably a lot of hard feeling associated with this episode of Chicago birding. I will remove this unnecessary paragraph from future printings of my book.
Sure, why would it be relevant that the inseparable team of Bedford & Brown was so mistrusted as to cause Ken Able to take the extraordinary step of issuing a blanket statement in AFN questioning 90 records that they submitted together? They now say they never confessed to anything, so we're left relying on the word of Ken Able. Maybe someone should ask Able about all of this, since apparently Hill didn't.
Of course, this is all "ancient birding history" anyway. We should probably burn all those old AFN's to keep warm, as they're so irrelevant to modern birding.
Question: Is Geoff Hill the most conflicted person on the planet?
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