Ghost Birds: Jim Tanner and the Quest for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1935-1941
“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.”\ —Tim Gallagher, author of The Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker\ 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...
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Fully captures Tanner's determination to track down what was then, as now, one of ornithology's true Holy Grails, the Ivory-billed woodpecker.
