Summary
Bobby Harrison loved birds from the time he was a little boy, growing up in Alabama, playing in the woods. When he was 15, he took up photography.
When he was 17, in the late 1960s, he can remember reading an article in Life magazine about a man in eastern Texas who claimed to have seen an ivory-billed woodpecker. The bird was thought to have become extinct in the mid-1940s.See the full content of this document
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Photographer Hears the Call of the Wild
Harrison can remember wanting to go to Texas to find the woodpecker and take a picture of it and become famous. But later, after he read scientific papers, he w...
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