Subject: [Tweeters] list of 'big year' books (vicarious birding on a rainy day)
Date: Sun Dec 8 17:05:53 PST 2019
From: birder at pottersaylor.com - birder at pottersaylor.com

And one more:

Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds' by Octavia Gentile (it's about Phoebe Snetsinger)

Mary Saylor
Issaquah


> On Dec 8, 2019, at 4:31 PM, birder at pottersaylor.com wrote:

>

> Thanks for this!

>

> Also:

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> 'Birding on Borrowed Time' by Phoebe Snetsinger

>

> 'To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, A Son, and a Lifelong Obsession' by Dan Koeppel

>

> 'Big Year: A Romance of Birding and Flying' by Sanford L. Cooper (self-published, my dad's cousin!)

>

> Mary Saylor

> Issaquah

>

>> On Dec 7, 2019, at 3:00 PM, Lonnie Somer <mombiwheeler at gmail.com <mailto:mombiwheeler at gmail.com>> wrote:

>>

>> Hi Tweeters,

>>

>> I've typed up a list of my 'Big Year' birding books in chronological order just now, mostly in an attempt to avoid the actual work that I should be doing. If you know of any that I left out, please pass the titles along to me. Thanks,

>>

>> Lonnie Somer

>> Seattle

>>

>>

>> Wild America (1955) by Roger Tory Peterson & James Fisher

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>> Call Collect, Ask for Birdman (1980) by James M. Vardaman His attempt to be the first birder in the ABA region to see 700 species in one year)

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>> The Loonatic Journals (1987) by Steven Perry (self-published and difficult to acquire now)

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>> Birding's Indiana Jones: A Chaser's Diary (1990) by Sandy Komito (first of two big year autobiographies)

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>> The Feather Quest (1992) by Pete Dunne

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>> A Year for the Birds (1995) by William B. Rydell, Jr.

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>> Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand (1997) by Kenn Kaufman

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>> I Came, I Saw, I Counted (1999) by Sandy Komito (second of two big year autobiographies)

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>> Chasing Birds Across Texas: A Birding Big Year (2003) by Mark T. Adams

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>> The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession (2004) by Mark Obmascik

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>> The Big Twitch (2005) by Sean Dooley (a big year in Australia)

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>> Arrivals and Rivals (2005) by Adrian M. Rliey (a birding competition in the UK)

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>> BirdWatchingWatching (2009) by Alex Horne (a British son challenges his father to a big year competition)

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>> The Reluctant Twitcher: A Quite Truthful Account of My Birding Big Year (2009) by Richard Pope (an Ontario big year)

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>> The Jewel Hunter (2010) by Chris Gooddie (the author's attempt to see every species of pitta in one year)

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>> The Biggest Twitch: Around the World in 4,000 Birds (2010) by Alan Davies and Ruth Miller

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>> Extreme Birder: One Woman's Big Year (2011) by Lynn E. Barber

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>> Wild Birding Colorado: The Big Year of 2010 (2012) by Cole Wild (with some help from Nicholas Komar)

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>> The Quest for 365: My Big Year in Memory of James Raygor (2012) by Peter J. Makousky (self-published)

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>> A Big Manhattan Year: Tales of Competitive Birding (2013) by David Barrett

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>> Boobies, Peckers & Tits: One Man's Naked Perspective (2014) by Olaf Danielson (his goal was to see all of these species while nude)

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>> Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year (2016) by Neil Hayward

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>> Josh's Big Year: From Deserts to Jungles, a battle with Asperger's (2016) by Josh Crickmay (beautiful self-published book; can be ordered directly from Josh's website at https://www.joshcrickmay.com <https://www.joshcrickmay.com/> which ships from his home in South Africa or for less expensive S & H contact Brian Wulf at bkwulf at gmail.com <mailto:bkwulf at gmail.com>)

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>> Birding Without Borders (2017) by Noah Strycker

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>> Biking Birder 2016: A Green Birding Quest for 300 (2018) by Gary Brian Prescott (60 year-old birder tries to see at least 300 species in the UK by bike)

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>> Falcon Freeway: A Big Year of Birding on a Budget (2019) by Christian Hagenlocher

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