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  My car was broken, and I had a class to teach at eleven. So I took the city bus, something I rarely do.

I spent last summer crawling through The Big Thicket with cameras and tape recorder, photographing and taping two of the last ivory-billed woodpeckers on the earth.

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The Ugly Chickens
by Howard Waldrop
 
  Illustration by Darrel Anderson and Braid Media Arts