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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    For someone who was so quick to puff his chest out and play the "are you calling me a liar?" card, this is pretty weak. You're misunderstanding/misrepresenting Zander's statement about "all it takes is for one IBWO to be photographed once" as referring to a single photo being obtained, but it...
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I am also unaware of egg fidelity. Please explain.
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I think most of us on this thread are unable to find hypothetical woodpeckers. That's a good thing.
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    There isn't any possible way in which Larry's post can be interpreted as calling you a liar
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as 'conclusive' evidence of extinction as that would involve proving absence, but I would say that many decades without any conclusive evidence (identifiable photos) comes close enough. As for credible sightings, they are credible only to the extent that...
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    What would constitute conclusive evidence of extinction?
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    FWIW, yes I think we can all safely assume that 1TS (and his other aliases) is not Mike Collins, who unlike 1TS can express himself intelligibly in writing
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    Ivory-Billed Woodpecker continued

    I'm quite open to the idea of a few Ivory-billed Woodpeckers having persisted for a few years or even decades after those in the Singer Tract disappeared. I even think that the most parsimonious explanation for the Fielding Lewis photos from Louisiana in the early 1970s is that he did in fact...
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