David Pitkin

This afternoon I took advantage of working near Lincoln and saw a talk by David Sibley. He was presenting his analysis of the video that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology believes is a Ivory-billed woodpecker that has been long believed to be extinct.

His presentation and published analysis in Science convinced an over-tired me that the evidence was inconclusive at best. He did not seem very happy about the entire situation but I agree that when conservation dollars and attention is being spent that all the information needs to be out there. It sounds great to re-discover a species but identifying birds is hard, David Sibley would know that better than anyone I know.