Posada, Aimé
Pough, Richard
Prairie Chicken, Lesser
predators
See also specific animals and birds
preening
prisoners of war (POWs), German
railroads
rattlesnakes
Raven, Common
Reconstruction
recordings, sound
of Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-winged Blackbird
Red Wolf
Remsen, James Van
Reynard, George
Road to Wealth Leads Through the South, The (book)
Roaring Bayou (Louisiana)
robins
Rodriguez, Felipe Montero
Rogers, W. D.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
roosts
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rothschild of Tring, Lord
Sanchez Alvarez, Universo
Santee Cooper Project
Santee River (South Carolina)
Sartain, John
Scolytidae
scorpions, in Cuba
Scott, W.E.D.
Seminole Indians
Shay, Ephraim
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Short, Lester
Silent Spring (Carson)
Singer Manufacturing Company
Singer Refuge, see Singer Tract
Singer Tract (Louisiana)
attempt to preserve
Cornell sound expedition in
ecosystem of
Ivory-bill count in
last confirmed sighting of Ivory-bill in
logging of
maps of
Tanner’s Audubon-sponsored studies in
Tanner’s last visit to
Snail Darter (Persina tanasi)
snakes
snapping turtles
Snowy Egret
Snowy Owl
Solana, Eduardo
Song Sparrow
Sonny Boy (young Ivory-bill)
sound, recorded, for films, and birdsong
sound mirror
sound truck, Cornell team’s
South Carolina
collecting in
first State Natural Heritage Inventory in
Ivory-bill habitat in
Tanner in
Southworth, Press Clay
Spanish-American War
Sparrow
Song
White-throated
species
conservation of
endemic
identification of
specimens, of birds
market for
preparation of
Spencer, Mason D.
spiders, in Cuba
spiderworts
Spofford, Sally Hoyt
squirrels
Supreme Court, U.S.
Sutton, George
Suwannee River (Florida)
Swainson’s Warbler
Swan, Trumpeter
sweet gum trees
Taensa Indians
Tallulah (Louisiana)
Tanner, Edward
Tanner, James
Audubon Society–sponsored research of
birth of
childhood and adolescence of
at Cornell
on Cornell sound expedition
death of
in Florida
in Georgia
Golden Eagle rescued by
last visit to Singer Tract of
maps based on research of
preservation recommendations of
at Singer Tract
at University of Tennessee
visits to Singer Tract with Nancy
Tanner, Nancy Sheedy
taxidermy
Tendall Lumber Company
Tennessee
Snail Darter in
University of
Tensas River (Louisiana)
logging in area of
map
in 1980s
See also Tensas swamp
Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge
Tensas swamp (Louisiana)
National Park proposal for
See also Singer Tract
Texas
Thrasher, Brown
Three Endemics bird club (Cuba)
Thrush, Hermit
Timber Rattlesnake
Tindall, Morgan
Trumpeter Swan
Tulane University museum (New Orleans)
turkeys, wild
turtles
Twain, Mark
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Van Dyck, Anthony
Verne, Jules
Wacissa River (Florida)
Walt Whitman Bridge (New Jersey), Peregrine Falcon nest in
warblers
Ward, Henry
War Department, U.S.
Ward’s Natural Science Establishment
water moccasins
Wayne, Arthur T.
collects Ivory-bills
price list of
Wayne, Maria Porcher
White-throated Sparrow
wilderness, settlers’ attitudes toward
Wilmington (North Carolina)
Wilson, Alexander
captures Ivory-bill
Wilson, Edward O.
Winter Wren
wolves
Gray
Red
woodpeckers
See also Ivory-billed Woodpecker; Pileated Woodpecker
World War I
World War II
Wren
House
Winter
Wright, Vernon
Zapata Swamp (Cuba), bird species endemic to
Zeiss Sports Optics
Front jacket illustrations: Ivory-billed Woodpecker (detail) from The Birds of America by John James Audubon (New York: J. J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840—44). National Audubon Society, courtesy of Susan Roney Drennan. Background map: A Nineteenth-Century View of North America—1865 by G. W. Colton, from The United States in Old Maps and Prints by Eduard Van Ermen (Wilmington, Del.: Atomium Books, 1990)
Text copyright © 2004 by Phillip Hoose Maps copyright © 2004 by Jeffrey L. Ward
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Designed by Barbara Grzeslo First edition, 2004
eISBN 9781466811775
First eBook Edition : February 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoose, Phillip M., date.
The race to save the Lord God Bird / by Phillip Hoose.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Tells the story of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker’s decline in the United States, describing the encounters between this species and humans, and discussing what these encounters have taught us about preserving endangered species and habitat.
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-36173-0
ISBN-10: 0-374-36173-8
1. Ivory-billed woodpecker—Juvenile literature. 2. Endangered species—Juvenile literature. [1. Ivory-billed woodpecker. 2. Woodpeckers. 3. Endangered species.] I. Title.
QL696.P56H66 2004
598.7’2—dc22
2003049049