Extreme Birder: One Woman's Big Year Review

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Extreme Birder: One Woman's Big Year ReviewExtreme Birder offers two interesting features that are unusual for big year birding accounts: numerous real time photographs and short poems. Nearly every other page has a photograph taken by the author. Many of them are magnificent, but I appreciate the imperfect shots of rare and secretive species. These photos allow the reader to share her actual views of the birds. They contribute to a visually appealing book. The rhymes were apparently composed during Barber's down time, such as on her many flights. They add a touch of charm and emotion to the text.
Those features notwithstanding, I found the writing to be dull. The text is presented in journal style, and flows much like a blog. Many of the entries begin with a slight variation of "It was a good day today", another way of saying "I saw the bird I was looking for". To her credit, Barber did not embellish her adventures, but I think she could have done more to compose a more lively narrative. Actually, for a book entitled Extreme Birder, there isn't much in the text that we haven't read before. Barber operated like most other big year birders, used the typical guide books and rare bird alerts to plan trips, and stopped at the typical birding hotspots. She seemed more like a typical birder than an extreme birder. However, her big year bird list was truly impressive, exceeding lists by all other birders going before her, except one (Sandy Komito). From this perspective, she was extreme indeed.
If you are like me and can't resist reading accounts of birding big years, you will probably want to buy this book. But in my opinion, Kingbird Highway (Kenn Kaufman) and The Big Year (Mark Obmascik) clearly remain as the standard in big year writing.
Extreme Birder: One Woman's Big Year OverviewOne woman . . . one year . . . 723 species of birds. . .

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