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Great Gray Owl: Seeing the Ghost

10,000 Birds

As part of my commitment to birding excellence in 2014, I signed up for eBird alerts — receiving messages each time a bird not yet on my year list is reported in Missoula County. We arrived at Maclay Flat just in time to see three men unloading the sort of heavy-duty optics and camera equipment that signals serious birders on the hunt.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

In a review of Gorman’s book on woodpeckers, the reviewer (Koenig) suggests a woodpecker big year, as he reasons that the chance to encounter a wave of Buff-rumped Woodpeckers in his (presumably North American) backyard is very slim … Not only humans suffer from Harry Potter books.