“In Search of the Ghost Bird: Is the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Still Alive?” Zoom program on Thursday, August 7th, 7 p.m.

It’s been 90 years since Arthur Allen led a team from Cornell University across the United States, including Jim Tanner, future University of Tennessee Professor of Zoology, searching for vanishing birds. They were on the road for over five months, photographing and recording over 100 species of birds for the first time. One of the most sought after was the mysterious Ivory-bill Woodpecker. The Allen team found and photographed the bird in the swamps of Louisiana in 1935.

Join the UT Arboretum Society via Zoom on Thursday, August 7, 7pm EDT as Michelle Campanis, education coordinator at the University of Tennessee Arboretum, and naturalist/author Stephen Lyn Bales as th

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