"Search for the Rare Ivorybill"

In "Search for the Rare Ivorybill", Don Eckleberry discusses the importance of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Eckleberry first gives the reader some background information about the woodpecker and its importance in existence. Eckleberry writes with a lot of passion and excitement. While I was reading I could easily tell the passion that Eckleberry has for the ivory billed woodpecker. Throughout the reading, I found myself very interested in his story of his search for the woodpecker, and I almost felt like i was there. Eckleberry forms connections with his reader and finds a way to get them interested and involved. I thought that Eckleberry put a lot of the blame on the logging companies for the low numbers of the woodpeckers. I also thought that he put a lot of blame on the government for not doing anything about the situation and blowing it off. The decline of the woodpecker could not have came in a worse time in my opinion. The numbers started falling and were low in the 1930s and early 1940s and this was the time of the great depression and world war two. During these times I don't think many people could've cared for the environment and animals as much as people were just looking for work and to get through the war. Little attention is given to something like a bird during the something as big as the depression or the war. I felt like Eckleberry wrote this article to try and capture people's attention, and I also think that Eckleberry was trying to get some help raising awareness for the ivory-billed woodpecker. I found this article to be very intersitng because Eckleberry had a huge passion for finding these birds and helping try to save them.