One more warbler : a life with birds

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Label

One more warbler : a life with birds

Title remainder

a life with birds

Statement of responsibility

Victor Emanuel, with S. Kirk Walsh

Creator

• Emanuel, Victor

Contributor

• Walsh, S. Kirk

Author

• Walsh, S. Kirk
• Emanuel, Victor

Subject

• Emanuel, Victor
• Bird watchers -- Texas -- Biography
• Bird watching
• Birds

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Victor Emanuel is widely considered one of America'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 ecotourism. 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 one of his greatest achievements. In One More Warbler, Emanuel recalls a lifetime of birding adventures--from his childhood 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 of that continent. He tells fascinating stories of meeting his mentors who taught him about birds, nature, and conservation, and later, his close circle of friends--Ted Parker, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Roger Tory Peterson, and others--who he frequently birded and traveled with 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 far-flung island of Attu on the Aleutian chain. Over the years, Emanuel became a dedicated mentor himself, teaching hundreds of young people the joys and enrichment of birding. "Birds changed my life," says Emanuel, and his stories make clear how a deep connection to the natural world can change everyone's life

Member of

• Mildred Wyatt-Wold series in ornithology

Cataloging source

TxU/DLC

Dewey number

598.072/34764

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

QL31.E54

LC item number

E33 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Mildred Wyatt-Wold series in ornithology