A Stillness in the Pines The Ecology of the Red Cockaded Woodpecker [Paperback]

From eastern Texas the remnants of a once-magnificent forest, nurtured by moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, extend a thousand miles to the Atlantic shore and as far north as Chesapeake Bay. This unique woodland gave birth to two woodpeckers, one largethe ivory-billed woodpecker, which has not been sighted in over ten years and which is almost surely extinctand the other smallthe red-cockaded woodpecker, which may yet be saved.Densely packed, adroitly written life history of the red-cockaded woodpecker. . . . Expand[s] our understanding of a single species into a broad appreciation of ecology. A wonderful book . . . will be enjoyed by anyone with interest in either birds or the impact that humanity is having on its fellow travelers on spaceship earth. Paul R. Ehrlich, author of