Chasing Birds Across Texas : A Birding Big Year.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Birth of a Birder and a Texas Big Year -- Starting Close to Home -- The Rio Grande Valley in Winter -- Pursuing Varied Thrush -- Home and Away Games -- Northeast Texas Rarities -- A Long Weekend in the Pineywoods -- Big Year Nemesis Number One -- Dawn at the Lek -- Into the Ooze -- Spring Migration -- The Road to Four Hundred Species -- West Texas Bounty -- Late Spring in the Rio Grande Valley -- Strategies and Surprises -- Big Year Nemesis Number Two -- Into the Gulf of Mexico -- Among Butterflies and Friends -- Red Birds in August -- Adventures while Chasing a Long-tailed Jaeger -- Welcoming the Invaders -- Studies in Pain -- Two West Texas Gifts -- Of Owls and Cranes -- Frantic December Days -- Chasing to the End -- Reflections on a Texas Big Year -- Texas Big Year Species List -- Other Species Seen in Texas in 2000 -- Index.

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