{"id":15935,"date":"2025-03-28T13:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/victor-emanuel-revered-birder-and-pioneer-of-ecotourism-dies-at-84\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:21:54","slug":"victor-emanuel-revered-birder-and-pioneer-of-ecotourism-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/victor-emanuel-revered-birder-and-pioneer-of-ecotourism-dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism, Dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Victor Emanuel, a renowned birder whose adventures around the world in pursuit of imperial woodpeckers, red-crowned cranes and other avian wonders were chronicled by George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Rose Styron, died on March 11 in Austin, Texas. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cause of his death, in a senior living facility, was complications of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, his nephew, Steven Emanuel, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Emanuel made a business out of his reverential regard for birds when he founded <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ventbird.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Emanuel Nature Tours<\/a> in 1976. (\u201cWhen he comes to New York for a visit,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/27\/arts\/george-plimpton-author-and-editor-is-dead-at-76.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Plimpton<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/magazine\/november-december-1977\/in-search-imperial-woodpecker\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">once noted<\/a> in Audubon magazine, \u201che arrives at our apartment with a pair of binoculars hanging from his neck.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among the first to specialize in ecotourism, his company, based in Austin, employs dozens of guides who lead hundreds of expeditions a year. In addition to writers, Mr. Emanuel\u2019s bird-watching companions included <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/09\/obituaries\/prince-philip-dead.html\" title=\"\">Prince Philip<\/a>, the filmmaker Terrence Malick, and former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, who was a promoter of conservation efforts in Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Bushes once invited Mr. Emanuel to their sprawling ranch in Crawford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou ought to go down and look at the birds,\u201d Mr. Emanuel told Mr. Bush, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/the-birdman-of-texas\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Monthly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019m a bird shooter,\u201d Mr. Bush replied. \u201cThat\u2019s all I\u2019ve done as a kid \u2014 you know, I shoot \u2019em.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Bush thought about it. He was intrigued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSo I went birding with Victor Emanuel,\u201d he recalled, \u201cand it was fabulous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Growing up in Houston, Mr. Emanuel wasn\u2019t interested in sports or comic books; he spent his summer afternoons looking for hummingbirds and cardinals. In 1956, when he was 16, he started an annual Christmas bird count in Freeport. He kept the yearly tradition going through college and, later, while working as a political consultant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At one of these events in 1971, Mr. Emanuel and his team of volunteers recorded 226 species \u2014 a record number for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/community-science\/christmas-bird-count\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a Christmas bird count<\/a> in the United States that drew the attention of editors at Audubon. The next year, the magazine sent Mr. Plimpton, who had writing been about his blundering experiences trying to play professional football and golf, to count birds with Mr. Emanuel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI should admit at the outset that my credentials as a bird watcher are slightly sketchy,\u201d Mr. Plimpton\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/magazine\/from-archives-tsi-lick-goes-henslows\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> began.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was spellbound by Mr. Emanuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cJust a flash of wing, or the mildest of sounds, and he has himself an identification,\u201d Mr. Plimpton wrote. \u201cHe is so intense that I rarely ask questions. But he shows me things. I have gazed upon the groove-billed ani.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Emanuel spoke to his team of birders like a college basketball coach during a timeout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have a barn owl staked out,\u201d he told them. \u201cKeep an eye out for the screech owl. We have often missed him. There ought to be some groove-billed anis around. Can\u2019t miss them. They have weird, comical calls and they look, when they move around, like they\u2019re going to fall apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the trip, Mr. Plimpton introduced Mr. Emanuel to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/06\/books\/peter-matthiessen-author-and-naturalist-is-dead-at-86.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Matthiessen<\/a>, the environmentalist and nature writer, and soon the trio started birding together. Mr. Matthiessen became so close with Mr. Emanuel that he eventually led tours with him. He wrote about the experiences in \u201cThe Birds of Heaven\u201d (2001) and \u201cEnd of the Earth: Voyage to Antarctica\u201d (2003).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI call him the Zen master of birds,\u201d Mr. Matthiessen <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/tpwmagazine.com\/archive\/2009\/june\/legend\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine in 2009. \u201cHe\u2019s a wonderful teacher, and he has converted a lot of people to birding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It took perseverance. Mr. Emanuel began offering tours as a side venture and advertising them in bird and nature magazines, but business throughout the early 1970s was slow, and he continued working for local political campaigns. In 1975, a friend at the Audubon Society hired him to lead a bird-watching trip to the Yucat\u00e1n region of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt was at the age where these birding tours were just starting, and it just grew and grew and grew,\u201d Mr. Emanuel said in an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.briscoecenter.org\/islandora\/object\/islandora:2915\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with the Conservation History Association of Texas in 1997. \u201cThen birding tours became more and more popular.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When he quit politics to start Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, his colleagues were shocked. In his autobiography, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/utpress.utexas.edu\/9781477312384\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOne More Warbler: A Life With Birds\u201d<\/a> (2017), written with S. Kirk Walsh, he recalled a story told to him by Lola Oberman, a birder and political speechwriter. At a meeting with Senator Lloyd Bentsen\u2019s staff, Ms. Oberman mentioned that birding was a hobby of hers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou should meet Vic \u2014 Vic What\u2019s-His-Name,\u201d a staffer for Senator Bentsen told her, Mr. Emanuel wrote. \u201cWe hoped he would go into politics, but he went into birding instead, and we haven\u2019t heard from him since. What a wasted life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He preferred his to theirs, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI am a birder and a bird lover and a bird-watcher,\u201d he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/2016\/09\/24\/victor-emanuel-back-to-nature\/10084295007\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> The Austin American-Statesman in 2016. \u201cWatching them, we become more alert. We notice everything: the shape of clouds, a change of wind, drops of water that become more like prisms. It gives us a different life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1986, Mr. Emanuel opened a summer camp for young birders. He considered it his greatest legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you\u2019re the only kid in your school who likes to watch birds, you\u2019ll lead a lonely life,\u201d he told Sports Illustrated in 1992. He added, \u201cI want them to have confidence in birding as a joyful and exciting sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Victor Lloyd Emanuel was born on Oct. 24, 1940, in Houston. His father, Victor Emanuel Sr., was a sports editor for The Houston Post and later worked in local politics. His mother, Marian (Williams) Emanuel, was an antiques dealer and artist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a boy, Victor loved animals, a passion he inherited from his father, who once fought with officials at the Houston Zoo to keep admission for children free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe was interested in nature, but he was an urban man, so he liked animals in zoos,\u201d Mr. Emanuel told The American-Statesman. \u201cHis favorite animals were snakes. He became a friend of the director of the snake house, who allowed us to watch the snakes be fed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Emanuel studied biology and political science at the University of Texas, graduating in 1963. He went on to earn a master\u2019s degree in political science from Harvard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">No immediate family members survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On trips, Mr. Emanuel would often give birders nicknames, sometimes based on how their personalities resembled birds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In her autobiography, \u201cBeyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of the Heart\u201d (2023), Rose Styron noted that Mr. Matthiessen was \u201cthe curlew, because the curlew is a swift-running shorebird and Peter\u2019s first big successful book was \u2018The Shorebirds of North America.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">She had expected to be called the Baltimore oriole, because of her birthplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe said, no, you\u2019re the scarlet tanager because like Scarlett O\u2019Hara you always put off making decisions until tomorrow,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Plimpton chose his own nickname: Hadada, an ibis found in sub-Saharan Africa that, if disturbed, lets out a loud noise, defecates and then flies away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTo George,\u201d Mr. Emanuel wrote in his autobiography, \u201cthis series of actions was the perfect metaphor for journalists: \u2018We make a lot of noise and then make a mess, and leave.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As for Mr. Emanuel, he was the Hooded Warbler, a gentle songbird.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     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