CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION OF THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: A Bird of the Sixth Wave
PROLOGUE: The Hostage … February 1809
CHAPTER ONE: Specimen 60803 … February 2002
CHAPTER TWO: Audubon on the Ivory-billed Frontier … 1820–1835
CHAPTER THREE: “The Road to Wealth Leads Through the South”… 1865–1900
CHAPTER FOUR: Two Collectors … 1892–1894
CHAPTER FIVE: The Plume War … 1870–1920
CHAPTER SIX: Learning to Think Like a Bird … 1914–1934
CHAPTER SEVEN: Shooting with a Mike … 1935
CHAPTER EIGHT: Camp Ephilus … 1935
CHAPTER NINE: Wanted: America’s Rarest Bird … 1937–1939
CHAPTER TEN: The Last Ivory-bill Forest … December 1937–October 1938
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Race to Save the Lord God Bird … 1941–1943
CHAPTER TWELVE: Visiting with Eternity … 1943–1944
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Carpintero Real: Between Science and Magic … 1985–1987
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Return of the Ghost Bird?… 1986–2002
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Elvis … February 2004–June 2005
MAPS: The Collapsing Forest: Mapping the Loss of Ivory-bill Habitat
EPILOGUE: Hope, Hard Work, and a Crow Named Betty
Important Dates for the Protection of Birds, Especially the Ivory-billed Woodpecker