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| Naturalist James T. Tanner was a twenty-one-year-old graduate student when he saw his first ivory-billed wood-pecker, one of America's rarest birds, in a remote swamp in northern Louisiana. The year was 1935. At the time, Tanner 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 fmed Cornell Lab of ornithology. Two years late, Tanner hit the road again, this time by himself and in search of only one sepcies---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 mangnificent woodpecker. Drawing on Tanner's personal journals and written wirh the cooperation of his widow, Nancy, Ghost Birds recounts, in fascinating detail, teh scientist's dogged quest for the ivory-bill as he chased down leads in eight southern states. With Stephen Lyn Bales as lur guide, we experience the same awe and excitement that Tanner felt when he returned to the Louisiana wetland he had visited earlier ans was able to obseerve and document several of the "ghost birds"---including a nestling that he handledm, banded, and photographed at close range. Investigating the ivory-bill was particularly urgent because it was a fast-vanishing species, the victim of indiscriminant specimen hunting and widespread logging that was destroying its habitat. As sightings became rares and rarer in the decades following Tanner's ramarkable research, the bird was feared to have become extinct. Since 2005, reports of sightings in Arkansas and Florida made headlines and have given new hopeto ornithologists and bird lovers, although extensive subsequent investigations have yet to produce definitive confirmation. Before he died in 1991, Jim Tanner himself had come fo believe that the majestic woodpeckers were probably gone forever, but he remained hopeful that someone would prove him wrong. This book fully captures Tanner's determined spirit as he tracked down what was then, as now, one of ornithology's true Holy Grails. |
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| This narrative, relying on the journal of noted naturalist Jim Tanner, reminds us that the study of humankind's impact on nature has been ongoing for generations. The work recounts a search Tanner and his colleagues conducted in the 1930s for the already feared extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the "ghost bird." Bayles, a naturalist at the Ijams Nature Center in knoxville, Tennessee, chronicles the search through the southern states towards a dire prediction from Tanner about the future of the bird. An epilogue details several dubious sightings of the "ghost bird" in 2005 but the text makes it clear that it may have been already too late to save this beautiful bird even in Tanner's day. The volume includes a forward by Nancy Tanner, Jim Tanner's wife, as well as several b&W photos and maps. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
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?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.?
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