These retired teachers started with a little bird guide, and ended with a magnum opus
BIG PINE, Calif. — Retired high school teachers Tom and Joanne Heindel had spent decades pursuing a daunting challenge in bird science: A survey of every species in Inyo County's otherworldly tableau of lofty peaks glazed with snow, desert plains, spiky lava fields, rivers and canyonlands.
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