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Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open up a bakery or other things that professionals do when they give up a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to take into account his failed marriage with 'the one' or his prospect of ruining a new marriage with 'the next one'. And he probably didn't want to take into account turning 40. Therefore instead he gone birding. Birding was a lifelong passion. It was only on the list of parrots that Neil found a quiet that acquired eluded him in the complicated world of humans. But this time he also found competition. His growing set of types reluctantly catapulted him into a Big Yr - a competition to find the most birds in one season. His peregrinations across 28 state governments and six provinces searching for exotic species took him to a hoarfrost-covered forest in Massachusetts to discover a fieldfare; to Lake Havasu, Arizona, to see a rare Nutting's flycatcher; and Vancouver for the red-flanked bluetail. Neil's Big Yr was as unplanned as it was unintentional: It was the perfect distraction from life. Neil stunned the birding world by finding 749 types of parrot and breaking the long-standing Big Yr record. He also stunned himself: during his time on the list of hummingbirds, tanagers, and boobies, he found a restored sense of assurance and expectation about the planet and his place in it.
