Authenticity of Ivory-billed Woodpecker Sightings to be Challenged

In an exclusive report, the anonymous author of Bootstrap Analysis—touted as the “chronicles and musings of an urban field ecologist”—speculates that a soon-to-appear paper by three well-known and respected American ornithologists will cast doubt on the authenticity of the recent sightings of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in Arkansas.