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Midsummer’s Bird and Some Thoughts on Naming

10,000 Birds

It’s among a handful of species — American Robin, Black-capped Chickadee , the unholy trinity of House Sparrow – Rock Pigeon – European Starling , a few others — that have been everywhere I’ve ever lived. We never would have gotten all those extra species of Red Crossbill that way.

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Stony Creek Brewery: Big Cranky Double IPA

10,000 Birds

My teammate Tom and I have managed to surpass the contest’s namesake goal of 100 species in a day on each of these runs, and we even had the highest species count last year with 124 birds found in Albany County, New York – though that’s still a few short of the 128 Corey counted way back in 2008. Big Cranky weighs in at an imposing 9.5%