In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
by Jerome A. Jackson
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Author: Jerome A. JacksonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-01
ISBN: 0060891556
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Collins
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Book Review: The Ivory-billed book with an Experts Voice
Summary: 4 Stars
I began reading this book with trepidation. The story of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker has had some exciting news over the last few years tempered with some disappointment of no definiative proof or nest site found. After the long quiet period with lack of new sightings in Arkansas there was some excitement about the Choctawatchee River area in northwestern Florida. This has been written about in Geoffrey Hill's excellent book, "Ivorybill Hunters: The Search for Proof in a Flooded Wilderness".
My version of "In Search of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker" by Jerome Jackson is the updated title with the mention on the cover "Updated after the Controversial Rediscovery!". Jackson was a member of the group that published the rebuttal to the Science article about the Arkansas proof of rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
The book is quite interesting and if you like this subject matter you will not be disappointed. I found most of the book hard to put down other than some of the repetitous recounts of old records and the chapter about Ivory-billed Woodpecker trinkets, plates, and references in general literature. I am sure there are people that would be more interested in the historical impact of this bird, I was more interested in it's biology and the opinions of Dr. Jackson on its likelyhood of still existing somewhere in the southeast or Cuba. He did review this in satisfying detail but did not include any comment regarding the new sightings and observations in the Choctawatchee River area.
I can highly recommend this book, Dr. Jackson does give us hope that the birds may still be out there. He has perhaps the most knowledge about this species of anyone in the world and he has shared his knowledge and opinions here in a way that everyone can enjoy and understand.
Summary of In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is a complete natural history of one of the most exciting and rare birds in the world. Noted ornithologist Jerome A. Jackson takes the reader on his fantastic and personal quest, providing detailed insights into the bird's lifestyle, habitat, and cultural significance, examining its iconic status from the late 1800s to the present in advertising, conservation, and lore. As he relates searches for the bird by John James Audubon, Alexander Wilson, and others, Jackson offers anecdotal tales illuminating the methods of early naturalists, including how one captive ivory-bill destroyed a naturalist's hotel room in a desperate attempt to escape. Jackson's search for one of the few remaining ivory-bills takes him across the United States and into Cuba. A new epilogue disputes the putative rediscovery of the bird in April 2005.
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