Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations, map |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index. |
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. |
Summary |
& Ldquo;Everyone who is interested in the ivory-billed woodpecker will want to read this book & mdash;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. & rdquo;. & mdash;Tim Gallagher, author of The Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. In 1935 naturalist James T. Tanner was a twenty-one-year-old graduate student when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America & rsquo;s Istudent when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America & rsquo;s rarest birds, in a remot. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Tanner, James T. (James Taylor)
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Tanner, James T. (James Taylor) |
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Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Ornithologists. |
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United States. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Naturalists. |
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Ivory-billed woodpecker.
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Ivory-billed woodpecker. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Bales, Stephen Lyn. Ghost birds. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010 9781572337176 (DLC) 2010024333 (OCoLC)643762655 |
ISBN |
9781572337329 (electronic book) |
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157233732X (electronic book) |
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9781572337176 |
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1572337176 |
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