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An Interview with Richard Fried – the New York State Big Year Record Holder

10,000 Birds

Richard Fried spent 2011 doing a New York State Big Year and managed to top the record of 350 species which was only set in 2008 by Scott Whittle. In the three years before my big year I birded in eight states, Puerto Rico, Canada, England and Japan. It turned up last winter in the back yard of one of my old professors from vet school.

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