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One Year Under El Jefferino

10,000 Birds

Colorado or Delaware? For me, for birding: Delaware. Going again and again to many of North America’s most hallowed birding shrines, developing a working knowledge of species most birders are lucky to see even once. Every human does. That way, you can stuff the Green Heron ’s ballot box!

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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

10,000 Birds

“Spooked” is a bit of a strong word as I was very likely the first human this bird had ever seen and it stuck around for quite a while merely five metres away from me. This is a nighthawk in Delaware but, you know what? I decided to go for my very first visual pitta encounter, a Hooded Pitta I spooked next to the trail.

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