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Article: The Second Coming of The Lord God Bird: an eschatology of desire.(ivory-billed woodpecker)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- January 1, 2006
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My sister was the first in our family of birdwatchers to hear the news. Up at 5 o'clock to get ready for work, she awoke to the National Public Radio broadcast that broke the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker's return. "It could be pregnancy hormones that makes me all weepy at this news," she wrote in an e-mail to us on the morning we heard that a kayaker in Arkansas had lived every birder's dream. No, it wasn't hormones that made her cry, I told her later--unless I was pregnant too, as well as all the other birdwatchers overcome with emotion at the news that the ivory-billed woodpecker wasn't extinct after all.
More than 60 years had elapsed since the last ...