The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

by Phillip Hoose

  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

  car, Model A Ford

  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

  All rights reserved

  www.fsgkidsbooks.com

  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