Admired by his peers, he toured with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
In their thousands, bird enthusiasts peered through expensive telescopes, toured stalls offering birdwatching holidays and listened to lectures on projects that are creating jobs as well as saving habitats.Britain is particularly big on what Americans call "birding".
And since late 2012, she has soared past her peers on tour in the United States, becoming the latest in a string of players to stand above the rest.
Neither Berdych nor Stepanek is particularly popular with his peers on tour, but they now have the chance to become extremely popular at home (and that is not a reference to their tax homes in Monte Carlo).
Mr. Stillman has toured heavily guarded nuclear sites in China and Russia, and both men have developed close ties with foreign peers.
On campus, I'm a peer advisor, tour guide, thespian, and even supervise phone calls in our university's polling center.
Even in pursuit of a third consecutive major, even on the back of having been voted by his peers the PGA Tour Player of the Year, the Irishman only hovers at the foot of Olympia, in the opinion of the commentariat, rather than standing above the rest – until he gives Tiger a hiding.
I was struck by how many of my peers on the tour, who were largely community college administrators in Mississippi and Alabama, said they didn't even learn about civil rights history in school.
