Most folks recognize the name Roger Tory Peterson, the famous birder who wrote field guides to bird identification. But who has heard of Phoebe Snetsinger? Snetsinger, who grew up in Hawthorn Woods ...

Most birders know about Phoebe Snetsinger, who after a cancer diagnosis set out to see as many bird species as she could before she died. They also know that after 18 years of traveling the world, the ...

Along this exhausting and often painful road to birding fame, Snetsinger was taken prisoner by Ethiopian tribesmen, kidnapped and sexually assaulted in New Guinea. She contracted malaria in Zambia, ...

What would have been the 85th birthday of world-renowned birder Phoebe Snetsinger was marked with a Google Doodle on Thursday. Google marked what would have been the 85th birthday of world renowned ...