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The Queens List Won’t Stop Growing

10,000 Birds

Let’s first take a look at the predictions from July of 2010 and October of 2010 side-by-side. It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Did I do better this time? Read on to find out!

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

Tristan could certainly use a better year, though his BBOTY was a pretty good one – and he too did not get a photo but he found an illustration: By the end of October, things were looking pretty grim for my ten-year stretch of recording at least one life bird each year, a streak I’ve maintained since I began keeping a life list in 2010.

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