March 5, 2002

Listening for the Call of a Vanished Bird

By James Gorman

SLIDELL, LA.-- It was early afternoon in the swamp. We had spent the
morning hiking through Louisiana bottomland forest and the early
afternoon slogging through bayous in search of the ivory-billed
woodpecker.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/05/science/life/05WOOD.html (free
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