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The Queens List Won’t Stop Growing

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Long-eared Owl – This is another owl species that was, like most winters, not seen in Queens (though tantalizing second-hand reports of one at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge during the Brooklyn CBC reached me). My long overdue first Queens Snow Bunting and I survived seeing it at Jamaica Bay ! Snow Bunting – Yes!

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

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. The closest I’ve ever come to breaking that run was in 2014, when I only had six lifers all year. So that takes care of Mike: phalaropes are pretty amazing birds.

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