| Book Review | Environmental History, 14.1

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Book Review

Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana. By Michael K. Steinberg. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. xiii + 173 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. Cloth $24.95.

Michael Steinberg could well have been addressing his first words to me personally: "Of all the North American birds, the ivory-billed woodpecker may be the most charismatic ... [T]he ivory-bill ... fascinates people from all walks of life and has done so for centuries " (p. 1). I too have been obsessed with the species for as long as I have been interested in birds, which has been most of my life. The reasons are easy to understand. The bird itself is spectacular looking—it resided in magnificent places, the mature forests of the Lower Mississippi River basin where it once shared quarters with such other southern ghosts as red wolves, Bachman's warblers, and Carolina parakeets—and, of course, the ongoing evidence that the species may not quite be extinct.

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