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 ...

WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) --Google has honored famous birder Phoebe Snetsinger with a new Doodle animation highlighting her extensive work documenting birds all over the world. In celebration of what ...

Doctors gave Phoebe Snetsinger a year to live when they diagnosed her with melanoma in 1981, she decided to spend her remaining time birding. In the next 18 years, she traveled across the world and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

From time to time, I post short interviews with interesting people about their insights on happiness. During my research, I’ve noticed that I often learn more from one person’s highly idiosyncratic ...

Snetsinger is credited with seeing 8,393 bird species in her life timeline - the most of any birder at the time of her death. Today’s Google doodle honors the renown birder Phoebe Snetsinger. The ...

In this biography of bird enthusiast Phoebe Snetsinger, former journalist Gentile wonders whether there is a “line between dedication and obsession, and when does obsession cross the line into ...

In May 1965, a bored, blue 34-year-old housewife from New Brighton, Minn., focused borrowed binoculars on something that “nearly knocked me over with astonishment,” she wrote later — a black and white ...

When Phoebe Snetsinger saw a buff-spotted flufftail in South Africa, it was an experience beyond her "wildest dreams." Face time with a plump black bird with polka-dot feathers may not be the average ...

A new perennial pollinator garden has been installed at Community Park in Hawthorn Woods. The garden was planted June 10. Kyle Wanca, 18, who graduated from Barrington High School this school year, ...