The race to save the Lord God Bird
Tells the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker's extinction in the United States, describing the encounters between this species and humans, and discussing what these encounters have taught us about preserving endangered creatures.
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
c2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hoose, Phillip M., |d 1947- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The race to save the Lord God Bird / |c Phillip Hoose. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c c2004. | ||
| 300 | |a 196 p. : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a "Melanie Kroupa Books." | ||
| 520 | |a Tells the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker's extinction in the United States, describing the encounters between this species and humans, and discussing what these encounters have taught us about preserving endangered creatures. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: Bird of the sixth wave -- Prologue: Hostage - February 1809 -- Specimen 60803 - February 2002 -- Audubon on the ivory-billed Frontier - 1820-1835 -- "Road to wealth leads through the south" - 1865-1900 -- Two collectors - 1892-1894 -- Plume war - 1870-1920 -- Learning to Think like a bird - 1914-1934 -- Shooting with a mike - 1935 -- Camp Ephilus - 1935 -- Wanted: America's Rarest bird - 1937-1939 -- Last ivory-bill forest - December 1937-October 1938 -- Race to save the lord god bird - 1941-1943 -- Visiting with Eternity - 1943-1944 -- Carpintero real: Between science and magic - 1985-1987 -- Return of the ghost bird? - 1986-2002 -- Maps: Collapsing forest -- Mapping the loss of ivory-bill habitat -- Epilogue: Hope, hard work, and a crow named Betty - Twenty-first century and beyond -- Important dates for the protection of birds, especially the ivory-billed woodpecker -- Glossary -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ivory-billed woodpecker |v Young adult nonfiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Endangered species |v Young adult nonfiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Woodpeckers |v Young adult nonfiction. | |
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