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

10,000 Birds

In the three years before my big year I birded in eight states, Puerto Rico, Canada, England and Japan. It turned up last winter in the back yard of one of my old professors from vet school. Getting anywhere near the state Big Year record, let alone exceeding it. What was your biggest dip? The Harris’s Sparrow in Dryden.

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