Mystery Bird Meets Imperial Woodpecker – Trail Cam Photos Revisited (Part 2)

If you haven’t done so already, please read Trail Cam Photos Revisited for a more comprehensive discussion of the image that’s central to this post (including an explanation of our conclusion that the mystery bird is larger than a Pileated Woodpecker). At the time of writing, I didn’t envision doing a follow-up, but the nagging sense […]

Trail Cam Photos Revisited

Frank recently found a series of images from our trail cam deployment discussed here. These photographs, taken with a second camera, are of very poor quality, but they show what is clearly a Pileated Woodpecker on the target snag. Frank’s discovery led us to re-examine some of the images discussed in Frank’s post and elsewhere […]

Brief Update – Frustration

We recently purchased a new Plotwatcher Pro trail cam and are very hopeful that it will be a major improvement over the old Reconyx. Frank Wiley attempted to visit the search area today to place a trail cam on the large, downed sweet gum limb shown and discussed here. The road leading to the location […]

Encounter Rate

      A poster on the Ivory-billed Woodpeckerl Researchers Forum raised a couple of questions about sightings and their quality, and about our encounter rate. I thought I’d take this opportunity to respond here.       A number of people have had possible sightings in this area. Quality is a subjective term, but […]