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

10,000 Birds

What was your biggest surprise in 2012? The Harris’s Sparrow in Dryden. It turned up last winter in the back yard of one of my old professors from vet school. I also realized that there are a very large number of talented, knowledgable and generous birders in New York and I wanted to meet and learn from as many as I could.

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