A few days on it's interesting to review the commentary on the
"intertubes".

Some skeptics forums commentary at post 72 and beyond

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=164764&page=2

This like says they have "dubious" background in birds.

http://bbill.blogspot.com/2010/01/facts-on-hepperle-and-rainsong.html

Then there's the Craiglist ad for the book

http://www.twincitiesnaturalist.com/2010/01/daniel-rainsongs-craiglist-ad-about.html
http://www.twincitiesnaturalist.com/2010/01/complete-ivory-billed-woodpecker-ad.html

and other commentary

http://ivorybills.blogspot.com/

> hmmm, my current odds (always subject to change), for the Daniel
> Rainsong story:
>
> 74% -- hoax by two or more people
> 19% -- hoax by one person, others unwittingly suckered in
> 6.3% -- sincere individual genuinely believing he saw/photo'd IBWOs,
> but mistaken
> 0.5% -- a 7th grader's prank
> 0.1% -- a snowball made its way through Hell
> 0.1% -- Ivory-bills definitively confirmed

and my personal favorite (read the comments)

http://10000birds.com/i-feel-unclean-even-linking-to-it.htm

Starts to sound like the Orchid Thief. Or perhaps the Balloon Boy.
Maybe after the book a film or a TV special :-)

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Jim McCoy wrote:

> I agree with Larry Schwitters. The forum certainly isn't
> impressive, and quick searches on Daniel Rainsong and Joe Hepperle
> don't turn up much outside of the fact that the two seem to be
> friends or acquaintances. I certainly wouldn't click on any of the
> links until we see something from a more reputable source...

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