Talk:David Boynton

Source for David Boynton's 1987 audio recording of Kauai Oo?

Can anyone locate a verifiable source for the recording identified in this article as the final recording of the (now officially extinct) Kauai Oo?

The link cited in note 3 is dead. While there are numerous derivative posts online about David Boynton making the final recording (and taking photos) of what may have been the last Kauai Oo in 1987, the posts I've seen that include audio do not include a source. Further, some of the posts that claim to repost Boyton's audio actually appear to be using (heavily processed with reverb) different recordings of the Kauai Oo, such as one recorded by Jim Jacobi in 1986 that is in the collection of the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. This recording is easy to find online: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/228099

If David Boyton's recording is extant, it would seem a very significant contribution to update this link relating to the Kauai Oo, especially as its extinction story has become increasingly resonant. Freedschool (talk) 19:27, 4 March 2026 (UTC)