Stalking the Ghost Bird : The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana /
Unseen for more than sixty years and thought to be extinct, interest in the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker exploded in 2004 when two birders reported capturing the bird on film while searching a bottomland forest in Arkansas. STAKING THE GHOST BIRD examines the lengthy debate over the ivory-bill's sta...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1. BACKGROUND; 2. BOTTOMLAND FOREST: A Southern "Paradise Lost"?; 3. THE EXPERTS; 4. LOCAL STORIES; 5. FUTURE SEARCHES; AFTERWORDS; Appendix 1: Locations of Past Ivory-Bill Sightings; Appendix 2: Timeline of Reported Ivory-Bill Sightings in the United States; Bibliographic Essay; References and Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.