Dan Koeppel bird book reflects on his unattentive father who cared ore for eyeing birds than raising stable family

Polly Cracker
  Outdoors and adventure writer and Dan Keppel wrote a bird book about his fathers obsession with the hobby of birding and how he scaled back his medical business and lost romantic interests and his wife with this hobby. Dan Koeppel basically writes about the life or times of his father Richard and how his goal to see every bird in the world affected him growing up. Dan writes about his fathers global adventures that started from his observations near central park and his witnessing the environment dramatically changed through the decades into a more urban and less wildlife friendly place for his favorite birds.

birding was a growing pastime and Richard Koeppel was among the first to really take this hobby to new extremes and how this passion developed a distant childhood from his father for the writer. In his book called "To See Every Bird On Earth" the author slowly comes to grip in accepting his fathers  obsessive compulsive hobby.

How exactly Dans father funds these adventures is never really clear in this book. This book is overall pretty boring as it is little about the birds and more about Dan and his daddy and how much of a bird brain his father as he traversed a changing world and military style lifestyle rigidity of the sixties and used birding to distract himself from the changing place he was uncomfortable witnessing and it took a toll on his family structure. The dullness of this story I about how this mans father traveled the world to spend money and look at birds while the masses of poverty stricken folks barely survived in the era and eked out a living. Dan Koeppel has an more interesting book on fruit and bananas than what I expected as a parakeet reading this book