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Wrap-Up of 2012 Big Year Birding

10,000 Birds

The birders who birded on a budget and did a Lower-48 Big Year, Renee Rubin and Michael Delesantro , managed to track down 654 species, amazing considering how little money they have spent. Not only that, but they raised money for the Houston Audubon Society and the Katy Prairie Conservancy.

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Birds Worth The Trip

10,000 Birds

One was to piggyback on Patrick O’Donnell’s interesting article about winter warblers in Costa Rica, since his list is quite different from my list for central Mexico. (I Best of all, you can fly here direct from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Thank you for your understanding.”