Every bird-watcher has a “nemesis bird”–that one bird that has evaded you your whole life no matter how hard you’ve tried to find it. This bird might not even be rare, but it has eluded you despite ...

And then I dig around in my bag for my phone to hit up Google while I still have some semblance of what the bird looked like in my mind. Googling a bird is hit or miss: “gray bird, white chest,” ...