Chasing Birds across Texas: A Birding Big Year (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) Review

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Chasing Birds across Texas: A Birding Big Year (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) Review"Big Years" as far as most birders are concerned almost always refer to an attempt to count how many different birds one can see nationally or even internationally in a specific 365-day period from January 1st through December 31st of a given year. Birders by their very nature are counters and it has become inevitable that for those with neither the time nor the money to fly from, say, the wilds of Alaska to the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico and back might decide to make careful records of the birds that they see in a more limited geographical area such as a particular state. Though this is a fairly recent phenomena, today such records exist for every state in the Union.
No state in the United States has a wider diversity of birds than Texas which has recorded more than 2/3 of the 900+ birds seen through North America north of Mexico. Beginning on January 1st, 2000, Mark Adams, the assistant director of the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory and an ardent birder,set out to break the Texas record for sightings and by year's end he had done just that with a grand total of 489 different birds having been seen. This quite enjoyable volume recounts Adams' adventures throughout the state as traveled from the Gulf Coast to the Lower Rio Grande Valley to the Panhandle and then down to Big Bend National Park--all while still trying to hold down a full-time job. His successes were many; his failures few and far between even though he frequently laments having missed a rare species here or there.
Adams writes in an easy-to-read, enjoyable style. He captures, as ABC-TV used to say on one of its most famous sports programs, "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" but he does so in such a careful way that most readers will want to read more and more. Chasing Birds Across Texas is, however, a speciality book. Any one who cares about birds, especially the wonderful diversity of them to be found in Texas, will love this book and find it quite fascinating. Non-birders, on the other hand, will probably wonder at Adams' sanity and be bemused by why a grown man would care about the difference between a Blue Bunting and a Blue Mockingbird or would drive hundreds of miles in the hopes of seeing either.
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