Tanner, James T. (James Taylor)

James Taylor Tanner, was born in Homer, New York, on 6 March 1914. He attended Cornell University and did graduate study under Arthur A. Allen. His master's thesis was on "Sound Recording for a Natural History Museum." His Ph.D. dissertation was "Life History and Ecology of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker," based on 21 months of field studies in the great Singer tract in northeastern Louisiana, the last refuge for this nearly extinct species. Tanner died in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 21 January 1991.

From the description of Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, ivory-billed woodpecker records, 1935-1941. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 269285298

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