"Search for the Rare Ivorybill"

Don Eckleberry writes about the extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker. This story had a different approach about extinction compared to the previous reading about the passenger pigeons. In this, Eckleberry shares his experience of finding the last ivorybill and drawing it out on paper. Eckleberry describes the intriguing aspects of the ivorybill. He focuses on the lengths people went to save these birds from extinction. And what they did to preserve everything of it that they could.

I enjoyed that he used his personal experience with the ivory-billed woodpecker to share this story with his readers. The imagery that Eckleberry included in this piece was definitely a work of art. I loved the great details of the puddles and sodden leaves that lead to the roost tree of the ivory-billed woodpecker. And the “beng” and “bang” used to describe the sound of this bird. It gave me such a clear image of how this bird looks and how is sounds like without even the need to look at a picture.

Although, he did a great job with his descriptions of his personal experience and the bird itself.I don’t quite understand how his concluding paragraph ties into all of his earlier ones. It didn’t make a lot of sense to me. I wish I could understand what fate has to do with the value of a bird.