Product: Noah Strycker’s Big Year: A Companion Guide - DAYS 1 to 175: THE AMERICAS, WESTERN PALEARCTIC (Noah Strycker’s Big Year: A Companion Guide - COMPENDIA)
In 2015 Noah Strycker achieved something truly remarkable. Setting out from Antarctica on the first of January, he birded every spare moment of every day of the year, travelling the world and visiting 41 countries. 
 
Noah’s objective was to record 5000 different birds that appear on the species list of The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World. In fact, he far exceeded this target and reached a total of 6042. 
 
The aim of this Companion Guide series is to help birders and bird lovers all over the world share in Noah’s remarkable feat of endurance, and at the same time learn more about the birds he encountered on his amazing journey. 
 
Here is a summary of his itinerary: 
 
PART ONE: SOUTHERN AMERICA 
New birds 981 Year List 981 
 
PART TWO: NORTH-WEST SOUTH AMERICA 
New birds 999 Year List 1980 
 
PART THREE: MIDDLE AMERICA and NORTH AMERICA 
New birds 770 Year List 2750 
 
PART FOUR: WESTERN PALEARCTIC 
New birds 314 Year List 3064 
 
PART FIVE: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 
New birds 1140 Year List 4204 
 
PART SIX: MIDDLE EAST, INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, EASTERN ASIA 
New birds 931 Year List 5135 
 
PART SEVEN: SOUTH-EASTERN ASIA, AUSTRALASIA, India (second visit) 
New birds 907 Year List 6042 
 
This Companion Guide covers days 1 to 175 of Noah's remarkable itinerary as he travelled from Antarctica through South America, Middle America, Jamaica and USA, Europe and Asia Minor – recording 3064 birds in 131 families. 
 
The three compendium guide volumes that are available are: 
Noah Strycker’s Big Year: A Companion Guide - DAYS 1 to 175 
THE AMERICAS, WESTERN PALEARCTIC 
Noah Strycker’s Big Year: A Companion Guide - DAYS 176 to 365 
AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALASIA 
Noah Strycker’s Big Year: A Companion Guide - OVERVIEW 
Summary, Facts and Figures 
 
For those readers who would prefer to concentrate on one particular part of the world, there are seven smaller guides available, each covering just one of the itinerary PARTs listed above. 
 
Every Companion Guide includes: 
- A mapping of the birds on The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World used by Noah Strycker to those that appear on The IOC World Bird List maintained by the International Ornithological Congress 
- Birding days grouped into Sections for easier navigation of the species list published on the website of the National Audubon Society 
- A one line summary of each day’s birding 
- The new birds for each day listed in sequence 
- Each bird identified by the day number it was first recorded and its position on the species list 
- Geographical pointers to the sites visited by Noah 
- Notes to explain differences between the Clements list and the IOC bird list 
- Notes relating to other points of interest or to explain apparent anomalies 
- Birds searchable by both Clements English name and IOC English name 
- Regional listings in taxonomic order 
- Country endemics found by Noah on his travels 
- A record of his progress through the taxonomy of bird species as the year progressed 
- All bird lists formatted for easy reading on a Kindle or tablet 
- Embedded hyperlinks in IOC English names of birds to internet search results pages 
 
The WORLD REGIONs covered by this Companion Guide are SOUTHERN AMERICA, NORTH-WEST SOUTH AMERICA, MIDDLE AMERICA, NORTH AMERICA and WESTERN PALEARCTIC.

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