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Win a Free Trip to Thailand!

April 1, 2011 by Corey 46 Comments

We here at 10,000 Birds are VERY pleased to announce that we have procured a place on a two-week, all-inclusive birding tour of Thailand for January of next year that will be guided by field guide authors David Allen Sibley and Richard Crossley and American Birding Association President Jeff Gordon!  Rather then take the trip ourselves we figured that we would share it with one lucky reader who wins a little competition we have cooked up.*  Just imagine looking at a Spoon-billed Sandpiper with three of the foremost birders in the world at your side explaining field marks and behavior.  If you go on this trip your mind will be absolutely blown, we promise!

To enter the contest you merely have to guess the number of gulls in the picture below and put your answer in the comments (make sure to use your real name and email or you will feel really stupid when we can’t verify that you left the winning guess).  The closest without going over will win and GO TO THAILAND FOR TWO WEEKS FOR FREE!  Comments will be closed at midnight tonight (Eastern Standard Time), 1 April, and the winner will be contacted via email within 48 hours of the end of the contest.

So, how many gulls are in the picture?  You can click for a bigger version.

gulls at Breezy Point, Queens, after a clam die-off, by Seth Ausubel (used with permission)

How cool is this?  More details about the trip will be forthcoming but in the meantime you can get more information about it here.  Are you excited?  We are!!!!!!!!!

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*Actually, we were given the trip specifically to give away but we figured we would look like nicer people if we pretended we could have taken the trip ourselves and decided to share it.

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Written by Corey
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. 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 and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.