The race to save the Lord God Bird

Introduction: Bird of the sixth wave

Prologue: Hostage - February 1809

Specimen 60803 - February 2002

Audubon on the ivory-billed Frontier - 1820-1835

"Road to wealth leads through the south" - 1865-1900

Two collectors - 1892-1894

Plume war - 1870-1920

Learning to Think like a bird - 1914-1934

Shooting with a mike - 1935

Camp Ephilus - 1935

Wanted: America's Rarest bird - 1937-1939

Last ivory-bill forest - December 1937-October 1938

Race to save the lord god bird - 1941-1943

Visiting with Eternity - 1943-1944

Carpintero real: Between science and magic - 1985-1987

Return of the ghost bird? - 1986-2002

Maps: Collapsing forest

Mapping the loss of ivory-bill habitat

Epilogue: Hope, hard work, and a crow named Betty - Twenty-first century and beyond

Important dates for the protection of birds, especially the ivory-billed woodpecker

Glossary

Sources

Acknowledgments

Picture credits

Index.