Stalking the ghost bird : the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker in Louisiana /
Steinberg, Michael K., 1965-
Stalking the ghost bird : the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker in Louisiana / Michael K. Steinberg, with a new epilogue by the author. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2024. - xiii, 177 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Background -- Bottomland forests: a southern "paradise lost"? -- The experts -- Local stories -- Future searches -- Afterword -- Epilogue, 2023 -- Appendix 1: Locations of past ivory-bill sightings -- Appendix 2: Timeline of reported Ivory-Bill sightings in the United States -- Bibliographic essay -- References and further reading -- Index.
"In Stalking the Ghost Bird, Michael K. Steinberg engages the lengthy debate over the ivory-bill's status by examining the reported sightings and extensive efforts to find the rare bird in Louisiana. Louisiana has long been at the center of the ivory-bill's story. Steinberg discusses scientific expeditions, and he catalogs reported ivory-bill sightings since the 1950s, using a detailed time line that includes both dates and specific locations." "Interviews with conservation officials, ornithologists, and native Louisianans illuminate the ongoing controversy and explore why the ivory-bill, more than any other bird, arouses so much attention. Steinberg meets elderly residents of the Atchafalaya Basin who saw the ivory-bill while hunting in the 1930s and even ate the bird - which they called the "forest turkey"--During hard times. He paddles into Two O'Clock Bayou with one wildlife professor and travels to a cypress-filled wildlife refuge with the director of Louisiana's Nature Conservancy. His interviews illustrate how expert opinions vary, as well as how much local non-experts know."--Jacket.
0807181749 9780807181744
Ivory-billed woodpecker--Louisiana.
Stalking the ghost bird : the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker in Louisiana / Michael K. Steinberg, with a new epilogue by the author. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2024. - xiii, 177 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Background -- Bottomland forests: a southern "paradise lost"? -- The experts -- Local stories -- Future searches -- Afterword -- Epilogue, 2023 -- Appendix 1: Locations of past ivory-bill sightings -- Appendix 2: Timeline of reported Ivory-Bill sightings in the United States -- Bibliographic essay -- References and further reading -- Index.
"In Stalking the Ghost Bird, Michael K. Steinberg engages the lengthy debate over the ivory-bill's status by examining the reported sightings and extensive efforts to find the rare bird in Louisiana. Louisiana has long been at the center of the ivory-bill's story. Steinberg discusses scientific expeditions, and he catalogs reported ivory-bill sightings since the 1950s, using a detailed time line that includes both dates and specific locations." "Interviews with conservation officials, ornithologists, and native Louisianans illuminate the ongoing controversy and explore why the ivory-bill, more than any other bird, arouses so much attention. Steinberg meets elderly residents of the Atchafalaya Basin who saw the ivory-bill while hunting in the 1930s and even ate the bird - which they called the "forest turkey"--During hard times. He paddles into Two O'Clock Bayou with one wildlife professor and travels to a cypress-filled wildlife refuge with the director of Louisiana's Nature Conservancy. His interviews illustrate how expert opinions vary, as well as how much local non-experts know."--Jacket.
0807181749 9780807181744
Ivory-billed woodpecker--Louisiana.