To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime Obsession

A nature writer describes his father's ambitious pursuits in the world of competitive birding, recounting his decades-long, record-making efforts to spot more than seven thousand species at the expense of his personal relationships and the author's own coming-to-terms with his father's vocation.

Dan Koeppel is a well-known outdoors, nature, and adventure writer who's been published in The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Audubon, Popular Science, and in National Geographic Adventure, where he is a contributing editor. A former commentator for PRI's Marketplace, Koeppel has also appeared on CNN and Good Morning America.