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New York State Big Year?

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I first met Anthony Collerton when he was trying to see the Barrow’s Goldeneye at Jamaica Bay back in February. Truth is, coming in to this year I found myself with some time off after the sale of a business, but I was tied to New York and not really able to travel extensively for family reasons. After that, it gets tough.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding. It’s been quite the year, hasn’t it?

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