Woody's Last Laugh: How to identify and avoid 50 common mistakes caused by uncertainty Inside dust jacket flap with

Inside dust jacket flap with Simms' bio pasted inside front cover

searching for birds

This book is designed to be your companion on your explorations

the behavior seemed to defy the rules of evolutionary biology

Woody's Last Laugh: How to identify and avoid 50 common mistakes caused by uncertainty Inside dust jacket flap withWoody's Last Laugh explores a simmering controversy amid scientists, conservationists, birders and the media: the supposed extinction of American ivory billed woodpecker. Among the first to identify rampant mental errors inside conservation and environmental professions, the book identifies 53 distinct kinds of cognitive blunders, psychological biases, and logical fallacies on both sides of the woodpecker controversy. Few species have ever provoked