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Music

• By the Ash Tree and Semolina by Slow Meadow

• Opals by Catching Flies

• Mechanical Fair by Ola Kvernberg and the Trondheim Singers

• La Copla by the great Atahualpa Yupanqui

• Holm Sound by Erland Cooper

Notes

• You can find the original recordings, photos, and film clips taken on the 1935 expedition and after in the remarkable online library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

• Of the many books on the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the one I enjoyed and relied upon most here is Phillip Hoose’s The Race to Save the Good Lord Bird.