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An Interview with Richard Fried – the New York State Big Year Record Holder

10,000 Birds

The Harris’s Sparrow in Dryden. It turned up last winter in the back yard of one of my old professors from vet school. Considering my own limited skills and experience, and the reported species that I missed, I think 360 or even 370 is possible by a more skilled and determined (and possibly insane) birder.

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