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| | Cornell News: Ornithologist describes thrill of ivory-bill discovery |
 | | A thrilled John Fitzpatrick, left, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Tim Gallagher, editor of Living Bird, pause at the podium following the press conference April 28 announcing the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker. |
 | | Tim Gallagher, editor of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's award-wining quarterly, Living Bird, and author of the just-published book "The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker" (Houghton Mifflin), was the first ornithologist from Cornell University to positively identify an ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas' Bayou de View. |
 | | Here he recounts the thrill of that Feb. 27, 2004, sighting, as well as earlier near-misses that fueled his "obsession with this bird" and the organized search that followed his discovery. |
| www.news.cornell.edu /stories/April05/Woodpecker_TG_account.html (1399 words) |
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