The race to save the Lord God Bird / Phillip Hoose.
Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
2004
QL696.P56 H66 2004 (Mapit)
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Title The race to save the Lord God Bird / Phillip Hoose.
Author Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 0374361738
Publication Details New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2004.
Language English
Description 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number QL696.P56 H66 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 598.7/2
Summary 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.
Note "Melanie Kroupa Books."
Awards Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, 2005.
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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
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