NOVA takes an intimate look at Robert Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in turning bird-watching into a mass sport.

NOVA Season 9 Episodes...

• s09e01 - Computers, Spies and Private Lives
• s09e02 - Why America Burns
• s09e03 - The Great Violin Mystery
• s09e04 - Cosmic Fire
• s09e05 - Locusts: War Without End
• s09e06 - Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
• s09e07 - Artists in the Lab
• s09e08 - Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas
• s09e09 - City Spaces, Human Places
• s09e10 - Twins
• s09e11 - Salmon on the Run
• s09e12 - Test-Tube Babies: A Daughter For Judy
• s09e13 - A Field Guide to Roger Tory Peterson
• s09e14 - The Hunt for the Legion Killer
• s09e15 - Finding a Voice
• s09e16 - The Television Explosion
• s09e17 - Life: Patent Pending
• s09e18 - Palace of Delights
• s09e19 - Animal Impostors
• s09e20 - Aging: The Methuselah Syndrome

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.