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The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
by James T. Tanner

ISBN: 0486428370
Dover Publications Price: $14.95
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All who seek the elusive Ivory-billed Woodpecker rely on this elegant treatise from 1942, an extensive profile of the species' characteristics and habits that includes its original distribution patterns; the history of its disappearance; and its feeding, nesting, and breeding habits. 20 halftones, 17 tables, 22 other illustrations.
Unabridged republication of Research Report #1 of the National Audubon Society, 1942.


Table of Contents for The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
CHAPTER
1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
PART II. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT
2 ORIGINAL DISTRIBUTION
3 HABITATS OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
4 HISTORY OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
5 PRESENT DISTRIBUTION AND NUMBERS OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
PART III. ECOLOGY OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
6 POPULATION DENSITY AND INDIVIDUAL RANGE
7 HISTORY OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER POPULATION IN THE SINGER TRACT
8 FOOD AND FEEDING HABITS
9 THE EFFECT OF QUANTITY OF FOOD ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
10 OTHER FACTORS AFFECTING THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
11 GENERAL HABITS AND BEHAVIOR
PART IV. REPRODUCTIVE AND NESTING HABITS
12 TERRITORY AND COURTSHIP
13 NEST BUILDING AND THE NEST
14 EGGS AND INCUBATION
15 CARE OF YOUNG
16 NESTING SUCCESS AND CAUSES OF NESTING FAILURE
17 SUMMARY OF THE REPRODUCTIVE HABITS OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
PART V. CONSERVATION OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
18 REQUIREMENTS AND GENERAL POLICY OF A CONSERVATION PROGRAM
19 PRINCIPAL IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER LOCALITIES
20 SPECIFIC MEASURES FOR THE CONSERVATION OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER
"PART VI. SUMMARY OF THE ECOLOGY, LIFE HISTORY AND CONSERVATION OF THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER"
APPENDIX
A NOMENCLATURE
B TAXONOMY AND RELATED SPECIES
C PLUMAGES AND ANATOMY
D MEASUREMENTS
E SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF TREE SPECIES MENTIONED IN TEXT
REFERENCES CITED
INDEX

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