When I started birding, I carried a pencil and small notebook into the field to record sightings and make notes. It was a great way to learn, but a little cumbersome. A few years later, I met a birder who dictated sightings into a cassette-based voice recorder. How cool was that! Well, not the cassette […]
Posts Tagged ‘listing’
October 4, 2008
A Supremely Bad Idea: Three Mad Birders and Their Quest to See It All
Reviews, Books, Miscellaneousby Luke Dempsey
A very funny, and often irreverent, look at what happens when birding takes hold of the author’s life.
September 23, 2008
To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession
Reviews, Books, Biographiesby Dan Koeppel
An interesting tale of a man and his obsessive need to see every bird on earth.
by Phoebe Snetsinger
The amazing story of the woman who was the first person to see 8,000 species of birds, in her own words.
by Mark T. Adams
The tale of a birder’s big year in Texas. If you enjoy the “big year” sub-genera then you will want to check it out.
A wonderful, but altogether too short, documentary.
by Sean Dooley
A well-written and extremely entertaining chronicle of the author’s big year in Australia.
