Word: basham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birding largely for the companionship it brings. A birder can travel a thousand miles into the wilds of another state and find instant rapport with local birding fanatics, who are busy collecting new species, along with mosquito bites and ticks. "Camaraderie is what birding is all about," says Benton Basham, a Chattanooga, Tenn., anesthetist...
...Basham, it is also about hunting and listing. He is currently at the top of the big-time birding tree, holder of the records for most species seen in a lifetime (777) and the most species seen in a single year (711) in the American Birding Association checklist area -- Canada, Alaska and the Lower 48 states. The world of listing is presided over by the approximately 8,000- member ABA and its magazine, Birding, which ranks birders by species seen, prints erudite articles on how to distinguish different birds in the field and sets rules for the listing game...
...have seen 700. James Vardaman, a forest-management executive from Jackson, Miss., spent $45,000 and 170 days trying to see 700 birds during 1979. Vardaman, who called himself an amateur, paid guides and tipsters, jetted off after almost every rarity and ended the year listing 699 birds. Basham broke the 700 mark in 1983, and many birders dream of pushing the total higher...
...Harvard's dreams of an upset soured in the doubles. Mark Basham and Barry Buss quickly downed Adam Beren and Larry Scott, 6-2, 7-6. The other two doubles matches looked promising for Harvard, but a controversial call quickly subdued the under-dogs' hopes...