The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record dust jacket with minor chips

dust jacket with minor chips and tears

which preserve and protect bird habitats

Color frontispiece Pied-billed Grebe by Allan Brooks

among others

ornithologist

The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record dust jacket with minor chipsAn epic tale of one passionate birder's record breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 continents in just one year to see 6,852 bird species, rare and common, before many go extinct. When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the 'Big Year' the legendary record for birdwatching he was twenty years old, it was midnight, and he was sitting on the roof of a truck in the Andean Mountains. In that moment he promised himself that, someday, somehow, he would