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Tim Gallagher

Writer Tim Gallagher was the longtime editor-in-chief of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine. 

Two ivory-billed woodpeckers in one of the historic photographs that Arthur Allen captured in the field in 1935.

The Hero Who Convinced His Fellow Ornithologists of the Obvious: Stop Shooting Rare Birds and Watch Them Instead

Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea