Chasing Birds Across Texas

by Adams, Mark Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781585442959
• ISBN10: 158544295X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Author Biography

Mark T. Adams is the assistant director of the University of Texas at Austin-McDonald Observatory.

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Brush Freeman	IX
Acknowledgments	XIII
INTRODUCTION	3	(5)
CHAPTER 1 Birth of a Birder and a Texas Big Year	8	(11)
CHAPTER 2 Starting Close to Home	19	(10)
CHAPTER 3 The Rio Grande Valley in Winter	29	(12)
CHAPTER 4 Pursuing Varied Thrush	41	(7)
CHAPTER 5 Home and Away Games	48	(10)
CHAPTER 6 Northeast Texas Rarities	58	(7)
CHAPTER 7 A Long Weekend in the Pineywoods	65	(7)
CHAPTER 8 Big Year Nemesis Number One: Painted Redstart	72	(4)
CHAPTER 9 Dawn at the Lek	76	(8)
CHAPTER 10 Into the Ooze	84	(5)
CHAPTER 11 Spring Migration	89	(14)
CHAPTER 12 The Road to Four Hundred Species	103	(11)
CHAPTER 13 West Texas Bounty	114	(8)
CHAPTER 14 Late Spring in the Rio Grande Valley	122	(7)
CHAPTER 15 Strategies and Surprises	129	(8)
CHAPTER 16 Big Year Nemesis Number Two Louisiana Waterthrush	137	(4)
CHAPTER 17 Into the Gulf of Mexico	141	(7)
CHAPTER 18 Among Butterflies and Friends	148	(5)
CHAPTER 19 Red Birds in August	153	(4)
CHAPTER 20 Adventures while Chasing a Long-tailed Jaeger	157	(5)
CHAPTER 21 Welcoming the Invaders	162	(11)
CHAPTER 22 Studies in Pain: American Golden-Plover and Yellow Rail	173	(8)
CHAPTER 23 Two West Texas Gifts	181	(6)
CHAPTER 24 Of Owls and Cranes	187	(3)
CHAPTER 25 Frantic December Days	190	(12)
CHAPTER 26 Chasing to the End	202	(12)
CHAPTER 27 Reflections on a Texas Big Year	214	(7)
APPENDIX A Texas Big Year Species List	221	(20)
APPENDIX B Other Species Seen in Texas in 2000	241	(6)
INDEX	247