For the popularity of birding. With an Inaccessible Island Rail‘s wingspan of help from Pale Male, Jonathan Franzen, Annie Dillard, James Wolcott, Garry Trudeau, et al.; it takes a village to raise a binocular!

(The Rail is pictured above. Don’t go trying to find it, though! Didn’t you take its name to heart? I now have the perfect location for my autumn birthday voyage.)