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When it rains it pours… after some years of bloggish dormancy, news keeps coming for the moment… though I expect after the USFWS final decision at end of November things will slow down once again (no matter which direction the decision takes, and I don't believe there is anything forthcoming, short-term, that will move the needle on their decision).
Anyway, a few links or mentions for now:
1) Mark Michaels implies in a note that he and/or the National Aviary that employs him will have something further to say publicly about their research (in La.) and the USFWS proclamation before end of Nov.
2) In a prior post I mentioned J. Christopher Haney’s forthcoming book on the IBWO and cognitive aspects of the search. His recent appearance with Matt Courtman for IBWO discussion is available here (~90 mins., but you can speed through some parts):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k4wqNwMdMv8QnNOWqJIwtcm6gTkWLu5B/view
...and on this coming Monday (10/18) Courtman will have another Zoom discussion, this time with ornithologist (and Choctawhatchee searcher) Geoff Hill:
https://www.facebook.com/events/930432581204311?ref=newsfeed
3) And can’t neglect to mention that Mike Collins, who once spoke of throwing in the towel on the IBWO debate, is back with another new paper here, in an open-access journal:
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/S2591728521500201
…it’s mostly a rehash of his rehashes of his rehashes (and I don’t mean that as a putdown, but just as a warning to folks well-familiar with his work and arguments, that most of this 34-page paper you will have read before, though this gives a nice re-overview), but it does contain one new idea… and Mike is nothing if not an idea-generator.
His new notion is to focus on acoustics and employ “A horizontal array of microphones” that “would make it possible to detect weaker sounds and determine the directions of sources. This approach has the potential to lead to the discovery of a nest, and it might be more effective if the array is placed above the treetops, where sounds might propagate to longer ranges.”
Anyway, read it all for yourself; makes for a nice review of both some IBWO history as well as more recent events/arguments... as for finding a nest hole, well, don't hold your breath.
...and one last note: with all the publicity the Ivory-bill has once again received in the last month, its picture plastered all over the press once more, you can pretty much count on yet a new flurry of (mistaken) "sightings" coming from the public-at-large. So beware.
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