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 […]

New Unenhanced Crops of Drone Clips at Full Speed

In response to a number of requests for full speed versions of the videos I presented, I went back to the original full clips, MAX 0008 and 0009 and re-cropped them, without resizing, on Clideo.com. There’s also a different, tighter crop of the landing sequence. These iterations now show Flight 4 and the subsequent landing and […]

National Aviary/Project Principalis Final Submissions on The Proposed Delisting of The Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Yesterday, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service posted submissions from Steve Latta and me on the proposed delisting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The comment period closed on Monday, August 8th, but there was a slight delay in posting our material due to the number and size of files included. I delivered the recorded presentation below […]

Preprint Available: Multiple Lines of Evidence indicate the survival of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Louisiana

An announcement from the National Aviary and Project Principalis: The National Aviary, along with Project Principalis, is delighted to announce that we have made available to the public the results to date of our search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. A paper titled, “Multiple lines of evidence indicate survival of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Louisiana” co-authored […]

A Tantalizing Trail Cam Capture

Best laid plans . . . I’m pushing back the posts on historic range and evidence but hope to get to them soon. In going through some of the remaining unexamined images from past trail cam deployments, Geoffrey McMullan came across an intriguing image. He sent me the file for the entire day without indicating […]

Evidence: Project Coyote 2009-2018

Summary Evidence collected by Project Coyote in two parts of Louisiana from 2009-2018 should, on its own, suffice to justify maintaining the Ivory-billed Woodpecker’s current listing as an extant, endangered species in the United States. Others may differ, but I think the totality of the evidence does even more, making a compelling case that the […]