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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

In Memory of Bob Russell

I was very sad to learn that Bob Russell, Retired US Fish and Wildlife Service, died suddenly this week. Bob’s name (Rob on Facebook) will be familiar to most ivorybill searchers; he was involved in the events in Arkansas in the earliest days, and he developed one of the first lists of promising search locations, […]