10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IVORYBILL»
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Ivorybill hunters: the search for proof in a flooded wilderness
"Written like a detective story, Ivorybill Hunters also delves into the science behind the rediscovery of a species, explaining how professional ornithologists follow up on a sight record of a rare bird, and how this differs from the public ...
Geoffrey Edward Hill, 2007
This amusing little story has no delusions of grandeur, no intellectual pretensions, but it certainly has a good sense of timing; the advance author copy was received for approval the very day there was a long-awaited public announcement of ...
Anne Butler, Anne Butler, 2005
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They Lived to Tell the Tale: True Stories of Modern ...
The search for proof began, but of all the highlights that followed our initial
sighting, none compared to the moment, about an hour after Tim and I had seen
the ivorybill woodpecker, when I telephoned my wife, Nora. Over the years, she ...
Jan Jarboe Russell, The Explorers Club, 2007
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The Dark Ages of My Youth: And Times More Recent
Dad. Saw. an. Ivorybill. Recent news from Bayou DeView, Arkansas, would have
had my dad dancing in the street. The news had nothing to do with the town itself.
Actually, the place is so small that apparently both Rand and McNally decided ...
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Drifting Into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the ...
Call me nuts, but I am looking for an ivorybill. The ivorybilled woodpecker was, or
is, a thirty-inch-wingspan, black-and-white bird once found in the Altamaha
swamps. The Altamaha was the last place that renowned naturalist Herbert
Stoddard ...
The bills of these woodpeckers were valued by Indians as decorations, and their
hunting of them may have had some impact on Ivorybill populations. But the
desire of the European invaders of North America for timber was the major
reason for ...
Paul Ehrlich, David S. Dobkin, Darryl Wheye, 1988
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Arkansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & ...
Residents jumped on the bandwagon, hawking such items as ivorybill T-shirts
and caps, ivorybill burgers and salads, and even an ivorybill haircut. An
anonymous donor has offered a $50,000 reward to the first person who produces
a ...
Wyatt Jones, Janie Jones, 2010
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Reflections on the Neches: A Naturalist's Odyssey Along the ...
The National Park Service has designated it as a recreational area and will
someday develop it as a campsite. Meanwhile, news of the purported ivorybill
sightings had reached round the world and, since my name was mentioned in
both ...
Geraldine Ellis Watson, 2003
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Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of ...
The ivorybill's primary food source was the wood-boring larvae of several families
of beetles that live between the bark and sapwood of recently dead trees.
Ivorybills existed only in forests where dead and dying trees were frequent and
other ...
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The Place Where You Go to Listen: In Search of an Ecology of ...
The ivorybill is a poignant symbol of the passing of wildness from this human-
ravaged world. For decades now the ivorybill has been thought to be extinct. I
remember as a young man paddling my canoe through Okefenokee Swamp, ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IVORYBILL»
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Texas Classics: Read an excerpt from 'The Land of the Permanent …
The Big Thicket has been a hiding place for bears, wild pigs, panthers, ghosts, Civil War deserters, moonshiners, whooping cranes, ivorybill ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 14»
Deep enough for ivorybills
Back in 2005, scientists in Arkansas said they had seen an ivory-billed woodpecker. The news sent an almost electric shock through the ... «World Magazine, Dec 12»
“Ghost Bird” - A new film about the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker
While the scientific community's response was almost unanimously enthusiastic, Dr. Jerome Jackson, longtime Ivorybill biologist and friend of ... «Stamford Plus Magazine, Oct 10»
Bird Color Mysteries Explained
... in a Brown Bag and Ivorybill Hunters. He served as the consultant for the forthcoming National Geographic feature film The Lord God Bird. «NatGeo News Watch, Apr 10»
The Thrill-Seeker's Travel Guide
After countless outings with teams of ornithologists and large groups of volunteer birders, they have reported glimpses of the ivorybill, analyzed ... «Discover Magazine, Apr 08»
US to spend $27M on possibly extinct bird
... Dryocopus pileatus in good Pileated but poor Ivorybill habitat in Arkansas has been promoted as the latest Ivorybill 'rediscovery'" concluded ... «Mongabay.com, Aug 07»
Not extinct? Ivory-billed Woodpecker may live in Florida
"We really never dreamed we'd actually find an ivorybill." ... may have quietly found an ivorybill Shangri-la along the Choctawhatchee." «Mongabay.com, Sep 06»
Long thought extinct, ivory-billed woodpecker rediscovered in Big …
For more information about the search and the efforts to save the ivory-billed woodpecker and the Big Woods, visit www.ivorybill.org. ###. «EurekAlert, Apr 05»
His hope has wings
... ivory-billed woodpecker, and to watch the only moving picture of an ivory-bill ever taken, go to www.ulala.org/P_Pigeon/IvoryBill/IBW.html. «St. Petersburg Times, Oct 04»
