It's sad that they're extinct, but I think it's really likely they are. This paper reads like desperate cryptozoologists more than serious scientists. >Althoug

It's sad that they're extinct, but I think it's really likely they are. This paper reads like desperate cryptozoologists more than serious scientists. >Although these observations lack photographic verification... >I understand that my sighting is awful, in so far as I saw none of what we consider classic field marks of an Ivorybill, and I had no opportunity to observe the bird for any length of time. However, I am also confident in identifying this bird as an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. If anything the fact that there's no meaningful evidence provided that's unambiguous makes a more compelling case that there's nothing there to find. The imagined calls can't be meaningfully distinguished from a pileated without further evidence, and the "double-tap" is not unambiguous evidence either. The videos are amazingly bad with nothing in them couldn't be a pileated that I saw. The vast habitats they once depended on are gone. Not a single feather from which DNA evidence could be tested nor any clear photo. We're firmly in cryptozoology territory with this paper, as always. More ivory-billed truther material.