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Kingbird highway, the biggest year in the life of an extreme birder, Kenn Kaufman

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Kenn Kaufman

the biggest year in the life of an extreme birder

Now revered as one of North America's top birders, Kenn Kaufman hit the road at age sixteen and spent a year crisscrossing the country to see as many birds as he could, in a birding competition known as a "big year." In what has become a classic among birders, this memoir chronicles the subculture of birding in the 1970s and a teenager's search for his place in the world. In a new afterword, Kaufman looks at the evolution of bird-listing since his own big year

Preface -- Not quite the West -- Finding the road -- A record for the breaking -- The Tucson five -- California influence -- Just like Christmas -- There's a birder on the road -- Time of a rival -- Strategy and hard weather -- To the promised landfill -- Trucker's march -- Shadow of Alaska, shades of England -- Dry Tortugas -- The fall of a sparrow -- Legions in the sky -- A day as big as Texas -- Springtime fades away -- The Kenmare Convention -- A thousand miles of gravel -- The edge of the world -- Full summer -- Birdman's holiday -- Spots before the eyes -- Exhausting thye possibilities -- Border patrol -- Close to the end -- Afterword -- Appendix: Notes on bird totals