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accidentally finding myself in one very big year
Author becomes a bird watcher, and sets record for number of birds counted.
When Hayward quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job, he went birding. It was a lifelong passion in which he found a calm that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans. But this time he also found competition. His growing list of species reluctantly catapulted him into a Big Year-- a race to find the most birds in one year. It was the perfect distraction to life-- and Hayward shocked the birding world by finding 749 species of bird and breaking the long-standing Big Year record. Along the way he found a renewed sense of confidence and hope about the world and his place in it.
New Year desolations -- Trash birds -- The bluebirds of unhappiness -- When hummingbirds stop humming -- Birding on the edge -- Ticked off in the bog -- Three men in a boat -- Winning the booby prize -- Losing my berings -- The bird that lives on top of the world -- A wild goose chase -- Swan song.
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