Most folks recognize the name Roger Tory Peterson, the famous birder who wrote field guides to bird identification. But who has heard of Phoebe Snetsinger? Snetsinger, who grew up in Hawthorn Woods ...
Most birders know about Phoebe Snetsinger, who after a cancer diagnosis set out to see as many bird species as she could before she died. They also know that after 18 years of traveling the world, the ...
Along this exhausting and often painful road to birding fame, Snetsinger was taken prisoner by Ethiopian tribesmen, kidnapped and sexually assaulted in New Guinea. She contracted malaria in Zambia, ...
What would have been the 85th birthday of world-renowned birder Phoebe Snetsinger was marked with a Google Doodle on Thursday. Google marked what would have been the 85th birthday of world renowned ...
From time to time, I post short interviews with interesting people about their insights on happiness. During my research, I’ve noticed that I often learn more from one person’s highly idiosyncratic ...
In May 1965, a bored, blue 34-year-old housewife from New Brighton, Minn., focused borrowed binoculars on something that “nearly knocked me over with astonishment,” she wrote later — a black and white ...
Like his late mother, Tom Snetsinger can't get enough of birds. As a youngster, he would get a dollar every time he found a bird his mother, noted birder Phoebe Snetsinger, could add to her list. It ...
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