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At age sixteen, inspired by birding pioneers such as Roger Tory Peterson, he dropped out of high school and began hitchhiking around North America in pursuit of birds. [3] Three years later, in 1973, he set the record for the most North American bird species seen in one year (671) while participating in a Big Year , a year-long birding competition.
Currie consulted on and provided footage for the 2011 film The Big Year, a comedy about a bird-spotting competition, starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. [1] In 2012, he produced a four-part series on the birds of Botswana for the Botswana Tourism Organization. [11] He contributes to the American Birding Association’s blog. [12]
The wide publication in 1934 of the first modern field guide by Roger Tory Peterson truly revolutionized birding. However, in that era, most birders did not travel widely. The earliest known continent-wide Big Year record was compiled by Guy Emerson, a traveling businessman, who timed his business trips to coincide with the best birding seasons for different areas in North Americ
The ABA presents several awards for promoting the cause of birding, advancing the state of ornithology, and making significant contributions to education and conservation. In 1980, it initiated the Ludlow Griscom Award to recognize "outstanding contributions to excellence in field birding;" [31] it is often called birding's highest honor. [32]
It costs $1 to unlock a Bird bike and 49 cents per minute for the duration of your trip, which averaged 10 minutes long in 2023. Bird offers a Community Pricing Program with a 50% discount for low ...
The Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail is a state-designated system of trails, bird sanctuaries, and nature preserves along the entire length of the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States. As the state of Texas hosts more bird species than any other state in the U.S. the trail system offers some of the most unusual opportunities for bird-watching ...
The Big Year is a 2011 American comedy film starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson, directed by David Frankel and written by Howard Franklin.The film was based on the 2004 non-fiction book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik.
Apollo (hatched April 2020) is an African grey parrot and the subject of the popular YouTube channel "Apollo and Frens" run by couple Victoria "Tori" Lacey and Dalton Mason. Apollo has been described as having the intelligence of a "human toddler " and can answer numerous complex questions in English.