Victor Emanuel is broadly one in all America's top birders. He has saw greater than six thousand species in the course of travels that experience taken him to each continent. He based the biggest corporation on this planet focusing on birding excursions and essentially the most revered ones in ecotourism. Emanuel has got a few of birding's maximum honors, together with the Roger Tory Peterson Award from the yank Birding organization and the Arthur A. Allen Award from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. He additionally began the 1st birding camps for teenagers, which he considers certainly one of his maximum achievements.

In One extra Warbler, Emanuel recollects a life of birding adventures--from his formative years sighting of a male Cardinal that ignited his ardour for birds to a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Asia to monitor all 8 species of cranes of that continent. He tells attention-grabbing tales of assembly his mentors who taught him approximately birds, nature, and conservation, and later, his shut circle of friends--Ted Parker, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Roger Tory Peterson, and others--who he often birded and traveled with worldwide. Emanuel writes in regards to the sighting of an Eskimo Curlew, regarded as extinct, on Galveston Island; environment an all-time nationwide list in the course of the annual Audubon Christmas chicken count number; trying to see the Imperial Woodpecker in northwestern Mexico; and birding at the far-flung island of Attu at the Aleutian chain. through the years, Emanuel grew to become a committed mentor himself, educating 1000's of adolescents the fun and enrichment of birding. "Birds replaced my life," says Emanuel, and his tales clarify how a deep connection to the wildlife can swap everyone's life.