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Wrap-Up of 2012 Big Year Birding

10,000 Birds

Perhaps the biggest big year of 2012 was in Australia. A gang of four in Calgary did a combined mammal and bird big year across Canada , hoping to hit 400 bird species and 50 mammals, though it seems that they really want to hit a combined 500 species (with the catchy moniker “Fur and Feathers 500?).

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