Prologue: A song in Labrador -- The undescribed world -- Names and numbers -- Channeling the illustrator : when the dream came -- A thicket of thrushes -- Channeling the illustrator : the feather problem -- Hidden identities -- Feuding in Philadelphia -- Channeling the illustrator : double vision -- The fugitive warblers -- Channeling the illustrator : all those plants -- Florida on the edge -- Channeling the illustrator : the size of the challenge -- Strangers on the shore -- Channeling the illustrator : materials and methods -- Lost in Texas -- Abundant life -- The big (small) do-over -- A shifting horizon -- Channeling the illustrator : vision impossible -- The search never ends.