This year’s Christmas Bird Count in Queens was a very different experience for me than the last two. I was in a completely different...
The first time I birded in Queens was 28 September 2005, when I had been birding for about four months. On that day I...
I begin 2010 having seen 604 species in 2009, easily the most species I have ever seen in a year, with 442 birds on...
I have finally put together my world life list! I have followed the taxonomic order of the International Ornithological Congress though in some...
Why keep a year list? This is a question we ask every year. I’m aware that some birders scorn the obsessive tabulation and parsing...
Just a plain old year list this year. No geographical boundaries like in 2007 or limits on form of transportation used like in 2008. ...
I started keeping my American Birding Association area life list on 19 May 2005, shortly after my trigger bird. Only birds that I identified based...
To see the rules I came up with for this much-smaller than last year’s New York State Big Year, click here. Birds are listed...
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