The (Big) Year That Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record

An epic tale of one passionate birder's record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 continents-in just one year-to see 6,852 bird species, rare and common, before many go extinct.

When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the “Big Year”-the legendary record for birdwatching-he was twenty years old, it was midnight, and he was sitting on the roof of a truck in the Andean Mountains. In that moment he promised himself that, someday, somehow, he would become a world-record-holding birder.

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