Noah Strycker is a writer, photographer, and bird man based near Eugene, Oregon. In 2015, during a quest spanning forty-one countries and all seven continents, he set a world record by seeing 6,042 species of birds-more than half the birds on Earth-in one calendar year. He has also written two well-received books, The Thing with Feathers and Among Penguins, and is associate editor of Birding magazine.
