Ep. 385: A Wild New World
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Ivory Bill Woodpecker
The only natural history we really had done on ivory bills was done by people like Audubon and Alexander Wilson. Nobody in the late 19th century had really studied them. Cornell sends a young graduate student, a guy named James Tanner down to do what amounts to kind of salvage natural history on the ivory bill woodpecker. He said, for one thing, they're not really shy around people. I mean, they don't really go duck and hide when I show up. They just kind of expose themselves out in the open. And he described how ivory bills flew through this beautiful old growth forest.
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