One more warbler : a life with birds
(Book)

Includes index.

"Victor Emanuel is widely considered on of American's leading birders. He has observed more than six thousand species during travels that have taken him to every continent. He founded the largest company in the world specializing in birding tours and one of the most respected ones in ectourism. Emanuel has received some of birding's highest honors, including the Roger Tory Peterson Award from the American Birding Association and the Arthur A. Allen Award from the cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. He also started the first birding camps for young people, which he considers on of his greatest achievements. In One More Warbler, Emanuel recalls a lifetime of birding adventures--from his childhoo sighting of a male Cardinal that ignited his passion for birds to a once-in--a-lifetime journey to Asia to observe all eight species of cranes on that continent. He tells fascinating stories of meeting his mentors, who taught him about birds, nature, and conservation, and the late, his close circle of friends--Ted parker, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Roger Tory Peterson, and others--with whom he frequently birded around the world. Emanuel writes about the sighting of an Eskimo Curlew, thought to be extinct, on Galveston Island; setting an all-time national record during the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count' attempting to see the Imperial Woodpecker in northwestern Mexico; and birding on the farflung island of Attu in the Aleutian chain. Over the years, Emanuel became a dedicated mentor himself, teaching hundreds of young people the yous and enrichment of birding. 'Birds changed my life,' says Emanuel, and his stories make clear how a deep connection to the nautal world can change everyone's life." --book jacket