The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
The ivory-billed woodpecker may have vanished from the forests and swamps of the southeastern United States, but the legacy of the magnificent “Lord God bird” is forever etched into the history of the American conservation movement.
In The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20), author Phillip Hoose introduces readers to the pioneering conservationists who scrambled to study, record, photograph and save the ivory-bill before its habitat fell victim to the developing nation’s appetite for timber.
Phillip Hoose, a conservation planner who has worked for The Nature Conservancy for 27 years, counts himself among the countless enthusiasts who have fallen under the mysterious bird’s spell.
