[HN Gopher] Multiple lines of evidence suggest persistence of th...
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       Multiple lines of evidence suggest persistence of the ivory-billed
       woodpecker
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2023-05-19 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
        
       | nly wrote:
       | So with all that footage, did they see one or not?
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       | Surely evidence becomes fast at some point.
        
         | ftxbro wrote:
         | > "Skilled, reliable observers associated with our team, all
         | abundantly familiar with Pileated Woodpecker, Red-headed
         | Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), and other birds of the
         | area, reported 16 visual observations deemed by the observer to
         | be probable Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. Seven of these were of
         | high enough quality that the observer considered the sighting
         | to be definite (See Appendix 1). Although these observations
         | lack photographic verification, many are supported by field
         | drawings."
         | 
         | So they are pretty sure they saw some 'the observer considered
         | the sighting to be definite' but they don't have any
         | photographs 'observations lack photographic verification'.
        
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