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.
| Main Author: | Hoose, Phillip M., 1947- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
c2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.