HUNTING WITH A MICROPHONE 



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PART or THE "road" TO THE IVORYBILLS NEST WAS UNDER WATER 



One of the expedition's chief objects was to record the voice of the rare ivory-billed woodpecker. The 

 almost total disappearance of this magnificent bird baffles ornithologists. Once locall.v abundant, it is now 

 found in a few isolated swamps. To locate a nest, Dr. Allen searched for the large chunks of bark which 

 the bird strips from trees. A mule team dragged the expedition's equipment through sticky mud to the nest. 



