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2013 Big Year Update

10,000 Birds

David Pavlik is doing a photographic big year, trying to photograph 500 species in the ABA-area in order to fundraise for the American Bird Conservancy’s work with the endangered bird species of Hawaii. Rangel Diaz’s big year in Miami-Dade County, Florida, is going well.

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The Feathery Tribe: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This is probably one of the reasons Daniel Lewis,the author,turned from writing a popular biography to a history of ornithology as a science and the ornithologist as a profession. Lewis is Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science and Technology and Chief Curator of Manuscripts at The Huntington Library in California.