Close to a Record

By Corey • October 7, 2008 • No comments yet

Scott Whittle of Year of the Bird is oh-so-close to breaking the New York State Big Year record. So far as I know, the best Big Year ever claimed in the state is 343 species and Scott is already at 340 (the vast majority of which he has photographed or recorded). Good luck, Scott, and may you get 350 or more!

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Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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