A Maine birder's 657-species addiction

A Maine birder's 657-species addiction

I started my birding life list when I was about 14 years old. It seemed innocent enough at the time. Little did I know where it would lead. A life list is a list of all species seen in one’s lifetime. Roger Tory Peterson’s groundbreaking Guide To The Birds, published in 1934, included a checklist of all recognized North American birds. Readers could check off individual species as they identified them. The 1960s edition of Peterson’s guidebook f…