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<p>“Everyone who is interested in the ivory-billed woodpecker will want to read this book—from scientists who wish to examine the data from all the places Tanner explored to the average person who just wants to read a compelling story.”<br> —Tim Gallagher, author of <i>The Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker</i></p> <p>In 1935 naturalist James T. Tanner was a twenty-one-year-old graduate student when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America’s Istudent when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America’s rarest birds, in a remote swamp in northern Louisiana. At the time, he rarest birds, in a remote swamp in northern Louisiana. At the time, he was part of an ambitious expedition traveling across the country to record and photograph as many avian species as possible, a trip organized by Dr. Arthur Allen, founder of the famed Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Two years later, Tanner hit the road again, this time by himself and in search of only one species—that ever-elusive ivory-bill. Sponsored by Cornell and the Audubon Society, Jim Tanner’s work would result in some of the most extensive field research ever conducted on the magnificent w

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Author

Stephen Lyn Bales

Publisher

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572337176

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Nature, Biography

Rating

4.33 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14