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  <title>To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession</title>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author writes about his father's birdwatch quest-- one of the handful of people in the world that has checked more than 7,000 birds off on his life list.  It's not the way I birdwatch, but it's kind of weird and fascinating, and the competitive lister birdwatchers help push the science of ornithology in interesting ways.  To get the interesting stuff out of this book though, like John Audobon being kind of a loser for most of his life, or how and why his father became such a driven birdlister, you have to wade through semi-crummy slow-moving writing that kind of makes you feel like a jerk for judging the way this guy writes about how he sees his dad's life.  I didn't finish it but I keep telling people stories from it.]]></body>
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