Whatever C&C2… Peter Byrne spent over 3 million dollars of other people’s money and he never found any “real proof.” He has been researching over half his life and he has found no “real proof.” So I’d be willing to bet, if you had $5 million handed to you, you’d still come up empty-handed. Money isn’t always the answer when you are talking about finding an animal that doesn’t want to be found. Sure it helps, but it’s not the answer for getting proof. Spending time with them, earning their trust. Trying to get habituated with them. That may bring proof some day. If we are lucky.

“The general story goes “with all those people looking with cameras and electronic equipment,helicopters etc in this area and no bipedal, ape-like creature has been seen.”

And then of course he goes on to illustrate one of several reasons why that’s a silly notion (and of course he’s right).

If there’s one bunch that I would not expect to say anything about a sas if they did see one - or several - in the field, it’s ornithologists.

And if there’s a bunch that ought to be ashamed of themselves if they’ve ever said a discouraging word about the sasquatch, ditto.

Indeed, c&c2. With anything like the funding the maybe-woodpecker has gotten, the sas would have been documented, long ago.

And there is a lot - A LOT - more evidence for the latter than there is for the continued existence of the former.

Gotta say this. A conspicuous bird that needs to fly and to forage - noisily - in trees really should have been documented by now.

And if you disagree, you have an open mind on other cryptids, too.

Right?

i will guarantee with 27 million i will bring in the bigfoot. like olebub and the dawgs say no bucks no bigfoot.

hell for one million i could bring in the bigfoot.

One article was by a “skeptic” recently noted in a blog on this site.

The general story goes “with all those people looking with cameras and electronic equipment,helicopters etc in this area and no bipedal, ape-like creature has been seen.”

My point of view is that knowing how to search and behave in a quiet manner not drawing attention or alarming wildlife, actually recognizing and hearing what is being seen and heard is a skill in short supply. I can easily see a reclsusive intelligent creature easily avoiding being seen in the Woodpecker search. Pretty sure I could avoid searchers rather easily.

The woodpecker is another story. Difficult but doable if enough people could be used at the same time.Grid search using sound detection of the “knock, knock” the feeding woodpeckers make. Listen triangulate approach.

Would of course have to keep a wary eye out for trickster otters.