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First, a little housekeeping: All future comments are now on “moderated” format meaning I have to okay them before they are posted — a super nuisance for me, but it’s also what most bloggers do these days (if they allow comments at all) -- I’m just late to the party. And as I received complaints about the string of comments on a recent post (a few people going back-and-forth at one another, not necessarily adding much of value) I’ve erased those comments — such behavior & personal attacks often makes others, who may have valuable contributions to make, unfortunately shy away from doing so! (and I get enough complaints about my own comments without having to deal with complaints about commenters’ comments!!). For whatever reason, civility has never been a hallmark of the IBWO debate! :((
“Curse of the Ivory-bill”…. Chuck Hunter recently used that phrase and I love it! So aptly describes the history of tantalizing, but never ever EVER quite solid claims/evidence for this elusive species. The Neil Wright pics, the Fielding Lewis pics, Herb Stoddard claims, David Kulivan storyline, Agey-Heinzmann, of course Big Woods, Choctawhatchee, Project Principalis, Mike Collins, literally probably another 100+ claims (some a-a-a-almost sounding credible) on the internet in the last year or two, and so many other bits I shan’t even mention, and stiiiiiiiill nothing definitive. Curses indeed!
(p.s.... I'm swamped with a lot of NON-IBWO stuff these days, so apologies if I'm a little slower than usual getting back to you about something you've sent along.)
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The Heintzman/Agey claim used to be what I hung my hat on as the best evidence of persistence since 1944, particularly because of the feather. Subsequent events have caused me to doubt the credibility of that evidence. The most interesting to me now are the Stoddard claims.
Post-2000: Luneau, video. Cornell, audio. Collins, audio and video. Hill, audio and video. Coyote-Principalis, audio, images, video. Mission Ivorybill, audio. Saluda, audio, video. Other unpublished audio that I have examined. These are not claims. Both audio and video have field marks agreed on as ID. Critics have to become unreasonable to discount all this.
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