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REDISCOVERY OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKERJuly 18, 2005 Several months have passed since the announcement of the rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) in the "Big Woods" of Eastern Arkansas. These sightings, of one of the world’s largest woodpeckers, believed by many to have disappeared forever, was exciting news not only to birdwatchers and ornithologists, but to the conservation minded public around the world. We at Buteo Books were thrilled to hear the news on the morning of 28 April 2005, and delighted that afternoon with the arrival of Tim Gallaghers’s The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker from Houghton Mifflin, the account of the rediscovery. Bookselling doesn’t allow as much time to read books as I would like, but this weekend I read The Grail Bird from cover to cover and can report that it is an engaging thriller and a detailed account of Ivory-bill sightings since the Forties and the challenging effort to prove and document the existence of the species in Arkansas. This first person narrative is filled with the adventures and misadventures of the author and his buddy, Bobby Harrison, as they tracked down every lead to find this magnificent bird. It describes the painstaking effort by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the Nature Conservancy to confirm the sightings and forestall further threats to the survival of the species. The following titles on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker are also available from Buteo Books:
(Also see the article on the Challenge to the Ivory-bill discovery, and our complete listing of Woodpecker books.)
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The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Tim GALLAGHER. Houghton
Mifflin, 2005. Now in stock! The author's quest to confirm the existence of the Ivory-billed
Woodpecker through the Southeast and finally, in Arkansas. Color illustrations. "The True Story of
the Rediscovery." 272 pp. $25.00
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Ivory-billed Woodpecker BNA species monograph. Jerome A. Jackson. BNA#711. 2002. A scientific account on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker which includes information
about distribution, systematics, migration, habitat, sounds, behavior, breeding, appearance, and conservation. 28 pp. $7.50
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Handbook of the Birds of the World, Volume 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Jacamars, Puffbirds,
Barbets, Toucans, Honeyguides, Woodpeckers. 69 color plates, over 300 color photographs. 2002.
613 pp. $205.00
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In Search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Jerome JACKSON. Smithsonian Institution
Press, 2004. A cultural and natural history by an ornithologist who has devoted much of his life to the
study of woodpeckers and the preservation of their habitat. 294 pp. $24.95
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The Ivory-billed Woodpecker. James T. TANNER. Dover Publications, 1942 [2003 reprint].
111 pp. Paper. A reprint of the Research Report Number 1 from the National Audubon Society. Tanner
investigated the last known breeding of this species in the Singer tract of Louisiana in the 1940s.
$12.95
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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird. Phillip HOOSE. New York: Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux, 2004. 196 pp. $20.00
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Woodpeckers of the World. Lester L. SHORT. Delaware Museum of Natural History,
1982. A complete monograph, covering plumage, behavior, evolution and systematics, plus individual
species accounts. 101 color plates by George SANDSTROM. 676 pp. $110.00
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