Dr. Geoff Hill

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  "Ivorybill Hunters" by Geoffrey Hill.A great book about an epic adventure written by an Auburn University biology professor.He also just happens to be one of the guys who thought they'd found a breeding population of the Ivorybill Woodpecker in Florida, long thought ot be extinct.Had they?

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  Geoffrey E. Hill Auburn University

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  Geoffrey Hill, a scharnagel professor of biology at Auburn University and author of "Ivorybill Hunters: The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness," gave a presentation on Sept. 5, in the Special Collections and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.
  
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  "These color traits may be a really good way to do environmental monitoring," Geoffrey Hill of Auburn University said. "If we see a population-wide drop in coloring, we can suspect something bad is going on."
  
  Animals stressed by any number of pollutants -- whether oil, heavy metals or polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), for example -- should show signs of fading colors, making them excellent early-warning signs of contamination in the environment.
  
  "It's going to be more like a canary in a coal mine sort of thing," Hill said.

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  The discovery, announced in Avian conservation and Ecology, was made in May 2005 by a research team led by Auburn University professor Geoff Hill.

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  Auburn University biology professor Geoff Hill, an ornithologist, said he and his search team have seen the giant and boldly plumed black-and-white ivorybill.
  
  Their loud tree-knocks and even faint vocalizations called kents have been recorded.But searchers need photographic or DNA proof before sightings can be proven.
  
  Hill is one of several Alabamians who figures in the search effort for the ivorybill, a bird nearly 2-feet long and with a wingspan of nearly 3 feet.
  
  "We have over two dozen sightings, and 400 soundings, scaled bark, everything short of getting a picture of this bird," Hill said last week in a telephone interview.
  
  Hill said he has four seconds of a sighting.
  
  "I personally have seen this bird," he said.
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  "Not only do they lack the prestige of the big-time hoaxsters, but they don't even have a fake photo, the former prerequisite for a serious Ivorybill hoax," Wall writes of Hill."It will be interesting to see whether the Bush Administration redirects (ivorybill) grant money from Cornell (University) to Auburn, an academically suspect, football and fraternity college located in the solidly Republican, Bible Belt state of Alabama."
  
  Hill and his small search team are in their fourth year of seeking proof of ivorybills in the Choctawhatchee River swamp of the Florida Panhandle.The Choctawhatchee (the W isn't pronounced) is the name of Alabama's Pea River when it flows from Geneva County into Florida, feeding a wide expanse of swampy hardwood forest.
  
  Hill wrote a book about three years of searching, "Ivorybill Hunters, The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness."It's published by Oxford University Press.
  
  Hill said he's being provided cameras that activate by sound when an ivorybill slams its chisel-shaped beak into the bark of a tree, stripping it away to get at beetles and larvae.
  
  "I'm pretty sure they will activate when the woodpecker is foraging," Hill said.
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  Hill believes he can get it.
  
  "We said we've got substantial evidence," Hill said.

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  Auburn University biology professor Geoff Hill, an ornithologist, said he and his search team have seen the giant and boldly plumed black-and-white ivory-bill.
  
  The ivory-billed woodpecker's loud tree knocks and even faint vocalizations, called kents, have been recorded.But searchers need photographic or DNA proof before sightings can be proven.
  
  Hill is one of several Alabamians who figures in the search effort for the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird nearly 2 feet long and with a wingspan of nearly 3 feet.
  
  "We have over two dozen sightings, and 400 soundings, scaled bark - everything short of getting a picture of this bird," Hill said.
  
  Hill said he has four seconds of a sighting."I personally have seen this bird," he said.
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  "Not only do they lack the prestige of the big time hoaxsters, but they don't even have a fake photo, the former prerequisite for a serious ivory-bill hoax," Wall writes of Hill."It will interesting to see whether the Bush Administration redirects (ivory-bill) grant money from Cornell (University) to Auburn, an academically suspect, football and fraternity college located in the solidly Republican, Bible Belt state of Alabama."
  
  Hill and his small search team are in their fourth year of seeking proof of ivory-bills in the Choctawhatchee River swamp of the Florida Panhandle.The Choctawhatchee (the "w" isn't pronounced) is the name of Alabama's Pea River when it flows from Geneva County into Florida, feeding a wide expanse of swampy hardwood forest.
  
  Hill wrote a book about three years of searching, "Ivory-bill Hunters, The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness."It's published by Oxford University Press.
  
  Hill said he's being provided cameras that activate by sound when an ivory-bill slams its chisel-shaped beak into the bark of a tree, stripping it away to get at beetles and larvae.
  
  "I'm pretty sure (the cameras) will activate when the woodpecker is foraging," Hill said.
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  Hill believes he can get it.
  
  "We said we've got substantial evidence," Hill said.

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  Auburn University ornithologist Dr. Geoff Hill, who recently completed a year-long search for the endangered woodpecker, unveiled his findings Monday, indicating there are signs ivory-bills might exist on land owned by the water management district.He produced audio recordings that appear similar to historical recordings of ivory-billed woodpeckers.However, he has not collected clear photographic or video evidence, which is the standard for scientific confirmation.

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  Dr. Geoff Hill, a professor of ornithology at Auburn University, will discuss the biggest buzz in the bird world in more than a half-century.
  
  The ivory-billed woodpecker was believed to have been extinct for more than 70 years.
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  Within a few months, Hill and a team from Auburn reported additional sightings along the Choctawhatchee River basin in the Florida panhandle.
  
  Imagine spotting Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and a UFO.Get the picture?

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  FWS financially supported a search along the river this year. (Less than two weeks ago, Auburn University's Geoff Hill and Brian Rolek presented results from the Choctawhatchee search at the American Ornithologists' Union meeting in Laramie, Wyoming.)
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  The article was the subject of much conversation in between sessions at the just-concluded AOU meeting in Laramie, where the word in the hallways was that it might appear on Friday, the day before Geoff Hill and Brian Rolek's presentations.
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  "Hill is convinced that he and his team saw ivorybills in 2005 and 2006 along the Choctawhatchee River in Florida, but he admits he can't deliver enough evidence yet."
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  Auburn University ornithologist and Florida Ivory-bill search-team leader Geoffrey Hill and team member Brian Rolek, also from Auburn, made 15-minute presentations after lunch.
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  Hill went first, recounting evidence for the persistence of the woodpecker along the Choctawhatchee River in northwestern Florida.
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  Hill said the team's data and the video will be posted soon on his website at Auburn and on Dan Mennill's website at the University of Windsor.
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  Here's what I was able to record as Hill and Rolek spoke:
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  Hill reported that the team concentrated their searches in two locations along the Choctawhatchee in 2007: at the mouth of Bruce Creek and farther north at Old Creek.
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  Bruce Creek was the site of Rolek's first reported sighting in May 2005, described (but not named) by Hill in our magazine in February. (See "The Other Guys".)

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