PICIFORMES
JACAMARS, TOUCANS, WOODPECKERS

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Archives: Ivory-billed Woodpecker rediscovered!

25-184. ALVARENGA, Herculano. Toucans of the Americas / Tucanos das Americas . Rio de Janeiro: M. Pontual Edições e Arte, 2004. 44 oversize watercolor paintings by Eduardo BRETTAS depict all of the Ramphastidae Family. Text on evolution, distribution, migration, behavior. Parallel text in English and Portuguese. 120 pp. $60.00
Imported from Brazil by special arrangement with the publisher.

23-217. BACKHOUSE, Frances. Woodpeckers of North America. Firefly Books, 2005. A comprehensive, illustrated reference to all 28 North American species. Color photos, distribution maps. 232 pp. Paper. $39.95

NEW! BARCOTT, Bruce. The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird. Random House, 2008. When local development threatened nesting grounds in Belize, Sharon Matola fought back. Addressing the realities of economic survival in the third world and putting a human face on the tension between environmental conservation and human development. 352 pp. $25.95

1208. CONNER, Richard, Craig RUDOLPH, and Jeffrey WALTERS. The Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem. University of Texas Press, 2001. 363 pp. $60.00

23-225. COSTA, Ralph and Susan J. DANIELS, Editors. Red Cockaded Woodpecker: Road to Recovery. Hancock House, 2005. Papers presented at Red-cockaded Woodpecker Symposium IV, Savannah, GA, January 2003. Color photos, figures, graphs, maps and tables. 744 pp. $95.00

DEL HOYO, Josep, Andrew ELLIOTT, and Jordi SARGATAL, Editors. Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Jacamars, Puffbirds, Barbets, Toucans, Honeyguides, Woodpeckers. 2002. The most complete natural history information available, heavily illustrated with spectacular color photos and color plates. 613 pp. Includes a complete laminated index of all non-passerines covered in volumes 1 - 7. $250.00

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1209. GALLAGHER, Tim. The Grail Bird: The Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. The author's quest to determine once and for all if the Ivory-billed Woodpecker still lives. Color illustrations. 288 pp. Cloth - $25.00; Paper with new afterword - $14.95

23-234. GORMAN, Gerard. Woodpeckers of Europe: A Study of the European Picidae. Bruce Coleman, 2004. A detailed color plate for each species, plus black & white illustrations. Complete Life History, with emphasis on field aspects, such as signs, behavior, habitats, calls and drumming. 192 pp. $75.00

26-231. HILL, Geoffrey E. Ivorybill Hunters: Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness. Oxford University Press, 2007. The discovery of what may be a breeding population of Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in the swamps of northern Florida, and the political maneuvering, evidence documentation, and secret keeping that is part of modern science. 260 pp. $24.95

1210. HOOSE, Phillip. The Race to Save the Lord God Bird. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004. 196 pp. $20.00
Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction, relating 200 years of the story of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and those who fought to save it.

1211. JACKSON, Jerome. In Search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. 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

24-276. JACKSON, Jerome A. In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. Collins, 2006. With new foreword and epilogue. Paperback - $15.95

1212. KILHAM, Lawrence. Life History Studies of Woodpeckers of Eastern North America. Publication of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, No. 20, 1983. 240 pp. $20.00

1213. KOENIG, Walter D. & R.L. MUMME. Population Ecology of the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker. Princeton University Press, 1987. Monographs in Population Biology No. 24. 435 pp. Cloth - $50.00; Paper - $20.00

1214. KULHAVY, David L., Robert G. HOOPER, and Ralph COSTA, Editors. Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Recovery, Ecology and Management. Center for Applied Studies in Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1995. Papers from a symposium. 551 pp. $60.00

1215. MACROBERTS, Michael & Barbara. Social Organization and Behavior of the Acorn Woodpecker in Central Coastal California. American Ornithologists' Union: Ornithological Monographs 21, 1976. 115 pp. Paper. $10.00

1216. McFARLANE, Robert W. A Stillness in the Pines: The Ecology of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Norton, 1992. 270 pp. $22.95

1217. RITCHISON, Gary. Downy Woodpecker. Stackpole, Wild Bird Guides series, 1999. Color photos. 120 pp. Paper. $19.95

1218. SHORT, Lester L. Habits of Some Asian Woodpeckers (Aves, Picidae). American Museum of Natural History: Bulletin Volume 152, Article 5, pp. 253-364, 1973. Paper. $20.00

1219. SHORT, Lester L. Habits of Three West Indian Woodpeckers (Aves, Picidae). American Museum of Natural History. Novitates Number 2549, 1974. 44 pp. Paper. $6.00

1220. SHORT, Lester L. Systematics and Behavior of South American Flickers (Aves, Colaptes). American Museum of Natural History: Bulletin Volume 149, Article 1, 110 pp. 1972. Paper. $20.00

1221. SHORT, Lester L. Woodpeckers of the World. 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. $65.00

1222. SHORT, Lester and Jennifer HORNE. Toucans, Barbets, and Honeyguides. Oxford Bird Families of the World Series, 2001. Color and black & white illustrations by Albert Earl GILBERT. Comprehensive guide to the 133 species found in tropical regions around the world. 526 pp. $252.00

1223. SKUTCH, Alexander F. Life of the Woodpecker. Ibis, 1985. Color plates by Dana GARDNER. 160 pp. $52.50

NEW! SNYDER, Noel F.R. An Alternative Hypothesis for the Cause of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker’s Decline. Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 2008. Monographs of the WVFZ Volume 2. While most modern accounts attribute the endangerment and extinction of the Ivory-bill to highly specialized foraging behavior and extensive logging within the species' original range, Snyder suggests that other pressures may be primarily to blame. Illustrated with many historic black & white and color photos and paintings. 58 pp. Paper. $25.00

NEW! STEINBERG, Michael K. Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Louisiana. LSU Press, 2008. An illuminating look at the controversy surrounding the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and Louisiana’s place in the story, from Audubon to Tanner to the infamous kayaker. 173 pp. $24.95

1224. TANNER, James T. The Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Dover Publications, 1942 [2003 reprint]. 111 pp. Paper. $12.95
Now considered extinct, this National Audubon Society Research Report was written when a few members of this species could still be found.

25-241. VILLARD, Pascal. The Guadeloupe Woodpecker and Other Island Melanerpes. Societé d'Études Ornithologiques de France, 1999. Color photos. A complete monograph including biology and ecology, mythology and folklore. In English. 136 pp. Paper. $75.00

1225. WINKLER, Hans and Lester L. SHORT. A Comparative Analysis of Acoustical Signals in Pied Woodpeckers (Aves Picoides). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1978. Volume 160, Article 1. 109 pp. Paper. $25.00

SINGLE-SPECIES MONOGRAPHS IN THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA SERIES:

194. Acorn Woodpecker. W.D. Koenig, P.B. Stacey, M.T. Stanback, & R.L. Mumme. 1995. 24 pp. - $7.50

509. Black-backed Woodpecker. Rita D. Dixon & Victoria A. Saab. 2000. 20 pp. - $7.50

613. Downy Woodpecker. J.A. Jackson and H.R. Ouellet. 2002. 32 pp. - $7.50

532. Gila Woodpecker. Holly H. Edwards and Gary D. Schnell. 2000. 16 pp. - $7.50

373. Golden-fronted Woodpecker. Michael S. Husak & Terry C. Maxwell. 1998. 16 pp. - $7.50

702. Hairy Woodpecker. J.A. Jackson, H.R. Ouellet, and B.J.S. Jackson. 32 pp. - $7.50 2003.

711. Ivory-billed Woodpecker. J.A. Jackson. 28 pp. - $7.50 2003.

565. Ladder-backed Woodpecker. Peter E. Lowther. 2001. 12 pp. - $7.50

284. Lewis' Woodpecker. Bret W. Tobalske. 1997. 28 pp. - $7.50

555. Nuttall's Woodpecker. Peter E. Lowther. 2000. 12 pp. - $7.50

148. Pileated Woodpecker. Evelyn L. Bull and Jerome A. Jackson. 1995. 24 pp. - $7.50

500. Red-bellied Woodpecker. Clifford E. Shackelford, Raymond E. Brown, & Richard N. Conner. 2000. 24 pp. - $7.50

85. Red-cockaded Woodpecker. Jerome A. Jackson. 1994. 20 pp. - $7.50

518. Red-headed Woodpecker. Kimberly Smith, James Withgott, and Paul Rodewald. 2000. 28 pp. - $7.50

474. Strickland's Woodpecker. R. Roy Johnson, Lois T. Haight, and J. David Ligon. 1999. 16 pp. - $7.50

588. Three-toed Woodpecker. David L. Leonard, Jr. 2001. 24 pp. - $7.50

252. White-headed Woodpecker. K.L. Garrett, M.G. Raphael, & R.D. Dixon. 1996. 24 pp. - $7.50

663. Red-breasted Sapsucker and Red-naped Sapsucker. E.L. Walters, E.H. Miller, and P.E. Lowther. 2002. 32 pp. - $7.50

285. Williamson's Sapsucker. R.C. Dobbs, T.E. Martin, & C.J. Conway. 1997. 20 pp. - $7.50

662. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. E.L. Walters, E.H. Miller, and P.E. Lowther. 2002. 24 pp. - $7.50

166. Northern Flicker. William S. Moore. 1995. 28 pp. - $7.50

See also the Birds of North America list.