Nicholas KomarNicholas Komar, a lifelong birder, was president of the Colorado Field Ornithologists when he retired as a disease ecologist and began his year-long odyssey that is the subject of this book. He also co-wrote Wild Birding Colorado, the Big Year of 201 published in 2011. He holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts and from Harvard University. In 2004 he was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease. Read More Read Less