Ebook: Kingbird highway: the biggest year in the life of an extreme birder

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.;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.