Posted by Otto Zequeira on March 01, 2016 at 23:19:05
Last Monday at The MAST Academy, my 9th grade English class, two colleagues, including Brian, and I birded Virginia Key Park with the North American Big Year record-holder, Sandy Komito. Mr. Komito was a subject of both the book and the movie, “The Big Year”, the latter of which included actors Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. My 9th graders read and saw both works. After the nature walk, we enjoyed a Q&A with Mr. Komito, who observed 748 species of birds in North America over a calendar year. The MAST Parent-Teacher-Student Association donated a MAST shirt for Komito at the request of my students to replace "Mr. Pants", his favorite pair of purple, polyester bellbottoms he left flying on a flagpole in Alaska during the record-breaking year.