Quest for 5000 birds

Very Good used paperback. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page.

"Dinner at a restaurant, His father, an ornithology professor, has invited Roger Tory Peterson. He remarks about seeing 5,000 species of birds. The boy, inspired, vows to go forth and himself encounter 5,000 birds. In the process are trials and danger and also the pursuit of reptiles. The boy himself becomes a teacher, a naturalist, a writer and an advocate."