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Sixth Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit An Amazing Success!

10,000 Birds

By the time Matthieu Benoit arrived I had only added one more species, a White-throated Sparrow , but the sky had started to lighten in the east and after exchanging pleasantries we got down to the serious business of listening and scanning, striving to not miss a thing. Using this trick we added Field Sparrow (new to the list!)

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Predicting My Next Five Queens Birds

10,000 Birds

Arctic Tern : There were multiple records of this species in June of 2018 out at Breezy Point and they just weren’t around when I was out there. But if I can get a Henslow’s Sparrow in Queens why not a Sedge Wren ? There was one at Breezy Point in the summer of 2018 and another one showed up at Jamaica Bay last summer.