Ghost birds : Jim Tanner and the quest for the ivory-billed woodpecker, 1935-1941 / Stephen Lyn Bales ; foreword by Nancy Tanner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bales, Stephen Lyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ivory-billed woodpecker.

Naturalists--United States--Biography.

Naturalists.

Ornithologists--United States--Biography.

Ornithologists.

Tanner, James T. (James Taylor).

Tanner, James T.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 WoodpeckerIn 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 swam

Contents:

Foreword / Nancy Tanner

"Someone needs to write a book..."

Sabbatical

The journey begins

The swampy South

The ghost bird

Hot sauce and bird city

Days of wind and dust

Has anyone seen a young ivory-bill?

Westward ho

Swansong

On his own

Back at singer

A need to move on

On the road again

A second nesting season at singer

On the road again, again

From the Santee to the sunshine state

Finding Sonny boy

I go pogo

The fellowship concludes

At home in Tennessee

Our lives changed forever

Aftermath.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613098504

9781283098502

1283098504

9781572337329

157233732X

OCLC:

699519526