Title Ghost birds : Jim Tanner and the quest for the ivory-billed woodpecker, 1935-1941 / Stephen Lyn Bales ; foreword by Nancy Tanner.

Publication Info.	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations, map
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 and 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. and rdquo;. and 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 and rsquo;s Istudent when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America and rsquo;s rarest birds, in a remot.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Tanner, James T. (James Taylor)
	Tanner, James T. (James Taylor) (OCoLC)fst01929441
	Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography.
	Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
	Ivory-billed woodpecker.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
	NATURE -- Birds & Birdwatching.
	NATURE -- General.
	Ivory-billed woodpecker. (OCoLC)fst00980899
	Naturalists. (OCoLC)fst01034543
	Ornithologists. (OCoLC)fst01048356
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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 bk.)
	157233732X (electronic bk.)

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