Acknowledgments

I thank: Lester Short and Jennifer Horne for sharing their friendship and knowledge of woodpeckers with me; the late Jim Tanner for friendship, guidance, and encouragement of my studies of Ivory-billeds; Nancy Tanner for her insights and generosity with Jim's notes and photographs; the late Peter Cannell for his encouragement of my Ivory-billed work; and Bates Littlehales, Orlando Garrido, Hiram Gonzalez, Arturo Kirkconnell, Giraldo Alayón, Gilberto Silva, Carlos Wotzkow, and many other Cuban colleagues for sharing their expertise and time afield in search of Cuban Ivory-billeds. I thank the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for grant support of my searches for Ivory-billed Woodpeckers and evaluation of habitats in the U.S., the National Geographic Society for support of some of my work in Cuba, and the Cuban government for logistical support. My wife, Bette, has helped all along the way! Finally, I thank all of the curators of all of the museums around the world who have carefully protected the Ivory-billed specimens in their care and who have so generously assisted me in my studies of those specimens. I also thank the librarians at the Cornell University Library who facilitated my use of the A. A. Allen archives there. Cover art by John James Audubon, courtesy of VIREO/ANSP.