Your Birding Ancestry

One of the most interesting questions in modern birding is that of intellectual heritage: How and by whom are birding knowledge, culture, and ethics passed down?

Help me think about this by answering two easy questions:

1. Who was your birding mentor?

2. Who was that person’s birding mentor?

You may need to talk to the answer to the first before you can answer the second. But it will be worth it.