Guest Speaker: Tim Gallagher 'In Search of the Cuban Ivory-Billed Woodpecker'

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Tim Gallagher is an award-winning author, wildlife photographer and magazine editor. Currently editor-in-chief of Living Bird, the flagship publication of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Tim got his first field guide at the age of 8 and has been watching birds ever since. He is the author of several books, including Parts Unknown, Wild Bird Photography, The Grail Bird, Falcon Fever, and Imperial Dreams. He lives in Freeville, New York. The ivory-billed woodpecker has long been the Holy Grail of birding. Found only in the southern United States and Cuba, its numbers plummeted in the late 19th century due to habitat destruction and wanton killing, and many fear it is now extinct. But Tim Gallagher has never given up on the bird. He was one of the searchers who spotted a lone ivory-bill in an Arkansas bayou in 2004. And this past January, he took his search to the rugged mountains of eastern Cuba and spent two weeks scouring the last-known haunts of the species. Join Tim as he recounts his adventures and shares pictures of his exciting journey to Cuba. (Tim's Cuban expedition will be featured this summer in Audubon magazine.)