A Birder's Guide to Everything

“Find your reason to fly.”

David Portnoy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is fifteen and knows more about birds than anyone in his school, and he believes he has spotted a species thought to be extinct. His father, Donald (James Le Gros), is about to remarry, so David takes off on a road trip with his friends to prove the sighting before anyone can doubt him. Rob Meyer sends them out with binoculars, field notes and a hope that is easy to believe.