With its huge white bill, striking crest, and unmistakable call, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker inspired awe

Author: Philip Hoose 
Format: Hardcover
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

With its huge white bill, striking crest, and unmistakable call, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker inspired awe in all who observed it. A victim of development and greed, the woodpecker's numbers rapidly diminished until it was feared extinct. Hoose's dramatic story reads like a novel and is an eloquent cry for conservation. Readers will be thrilled to hear that the first sightings of the bird in over 60 years have been confirmed.