Naturalist Tim Gallagher journeys deep into the savagely beautiful Sierra Madre, home to rich wildlife and other natural treasures and also to Mexican drug cartels in a dangerous quest to locate the rarest bird in the world the possibly extinct Imperial Woodpecker, the largest of all "carpinteros."
Explorer and naturalist Tim Gallagher is obsessed with rare birds. A decade ago, Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker, which most scientists believed had been extinct for more than half a century an event that caused an international stir. Now, in...