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Big Ticks; What Was Your Last New Family?

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Not that I don’t enjoy seeing new species myself, it’s just that they are an easy target and I am nothing if not lazy and mean spirited. But there is one kind of tick that I genuinely do enjoy, and as I do more and more birding it becomes harder and harder to get; new families.

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Collaborative List 2017 – February

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146 shared checklists (an increase on last year’s 97, well done chaps) noted 664 species (ooooh, down on 826 from last February) and brought the yearly total to 1063 (1303 at this time in 2016, ouch!). Canada Goose – Branta canadensis. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. Breezy Point Tip. 01 Jan 2017.

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