The Birder's Bookshelf: Ivory-billed Woodpecker
The Grail Bird: Hot On The Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker by Tim Gallagher. Houghton Mifflin (222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116), 272 pages, 5 1/2 x 81/2, $25, hardcover.
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Where were you when you heard the news? I was co-leading a birding trip in the Hill Country of Texas. Just after our first painted bunting of the day sang from a distant perch, one of the participants broke away from the group to take a cell-phone call from his son, who had just heard about it on the radio. The news was official?the ivory-billed woodpecker had been rediscovered, and it was the conservation event of the century!
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