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
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On Dec 8, 2019, at 4:31 PM, birder at pottersaylor.com wrote:
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Thanks for this!
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Also:
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'Birding on Borrowed Time' by Phoebe Snetsinger
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'To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, A Son, and a Lifelong Obsession' by Dan Koeppel
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'Big Year: A Romance of Birding and Flying' by Sanford L. Cooper (self-published, my dad's cousin!)
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Mary Saylor
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Issaquah
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On Dec 7, 2019, at 3:00 PM, Lonnie Somer <mombiwheeler at gmail.com <mailto:mombiwheeler at gmail.com>> wrote:
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Hi Tweeters,
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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,
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Lonnie Somer
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Seattle
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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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