Monday, September 26, 2005

Another anecdote from Jim Tanner

This paragraph appears on page 63 of Jim Tanner's book "The Ivory-billed Woodpecker":
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The center of the Ivory-bills' feeding territory in the John's Bayou area was logged during the summer of 1941, tractors, trucks, and men creating much disturbance there. At the time there were at least three Ivory-bills, an adult pair and a juvenal, in the area. By December of that year the adult male had disappeared, where or for cause unknown, but the female and juvenal were still roosting and feeding in the same territory. At least two of the three birds had been little affected by the presence of many men and machines.
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