[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?
|
| 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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