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Lucky bird blogger that I am, I was invited to attend a screening of Ghost Bird , a documentary film about the search for (and controversy surrounding) the alleged rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker , which will be playing at 7 PM nightly from 28th April to 4th May at the Anthology Film Archives in New York [...]

Tim Gallagher’s The Grail Bird is the definitive narrative of one of the most exciting ornithological discoveries in recent U.S. history. Yes, that’s right — I’m talking about the identification of living Ivory-billed Woodpeckers in an Arkansas bottomland swamp. What other bird story has inspired such passion, delight, and, most important, media attention in the [...]