Steinberg stalks ghost bird, lives to write about it

Michael Steinberg, author of Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana, will give a talk at LSU on Friday, May 2 in Room E130 in the Howe-Russell Geography Building. Steinberg, an LSU graduate and professor of geography at the University of Alabama, has written one of the most comprehensive books detailing the history of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker in Louisiana. To read a review of Steinberg’s book by 225 staff writer Sarah Young, click here. The event is free and open to the public. The talk begins at 3:30 p.m. (Photo credit: Courtesy LSU Press)