The race to save the Lord God Bird
Record details
- ISBN: 0374361738
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Physical Description:
196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Melanie Kroupa Books." |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Glossary -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index. |
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Subject: | Ivory-billed woodpecker Juvenile literature Endangered species Juvenile literature Ivory-billed woodpecker Woodpeckers Endangered species |
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Homer Public Library | YA 598.72 HOO (Text) | 000124591 | Teen Corner -- Nonfiction | Available | - |