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Fowl Obsession
October 19, 2011 —
Tallying species started in the 1900s with the Christmas Bird Count, but it was Roger Tory Peterson who turned birding North America into a sport.
Mark Obmascik is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and obsessed birder who lives in Colorado with his wife and three sons.