A Shoutout and Some Reasons to Be Cheerful

I thought I’d do a brief post to acknowledge some searchers/researchers I admire. Today is the 20th anniversary of Tim Gallagher and Bobby Harrison’s Arkansas sighting. To honor that date, I thought I’d share a link to a BBC radio program featuring Bobby. I have great respect for Tim and Bobby and their tenacity and […]

Update from Big Sky

Greetings from beautiful, chilly Missoula. I haven’t been to Montana in 50 years and am enjoying the change of scenery. American Grail is premiering tonight. I’m included early in festival trailer, which was a very nice surprise. The first review has already been published, and it’s positive. It’s a little strange (but pleasing) to be […]

2023 in Retrospect (Part 3): Standing in the Shadows of Arkansas Plus Some News for 2024

This installment will focus the media response to and online discourse about our paper (both the preprint and the peer-reviewed version) and how the 2005 Arkansas controversy and its aftermath helped shape our paper’s reception. It will also examine the way the discourse has privileged visual material, especially video, at the expense of the totality. […]

An Anniversary

Two years ago this morning, I saw an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. It’s my only certain sighting in over 15 years of searching. For new readers, I’ve had two others of which I am slightly less certain and another handful about which I’m a lot more skeptical. To honor the occasion, I’m going to repost my voice […]

Multiple Lines of Evidence Suggest The Persistence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Louisiana Published in Ecology and Evolution

Our peer-reviewed paper is available here. Update: The production error has apparently been corrected as of 1 pm on May 19. If you’ve read the paper already, be sure to clear your history to see the corrected version. First, a shoutout to my co-authors: Tommy Michot, Peggy Shrum, Patricia Johnson, Jay Tischendorf, Mike Weeks, John […]