Dan Koeppel originally wrote about his father in the September/October 2000 issue of Audubon. The story was later adapted for his book, To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession, published in 2005 by Penguin.
Articles by Dan Koeppel
From The Archives
My Father's Life List
April 5, 2017 — What drives a man to count birds, to travel to 75 countries to count them, to spend a fortune counting them, and to keep counting them?
Journal
A Bird Worth the Chase, Even After Death
March 24, 2017 — Dan Koeppel had seen plenty of Mountain Quail—until it became the lone bird on his dad's North American life list. Then it became his nemesis, too.
5 Days, 5 Nights, 3,000 Miles, and 10 Hours of Sleep—but Who's Counting?
October 14, 2011 — Contestants in the Great Texas Birding Classic face off in fierce competition. The real winners, though, are the birds themselves.
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