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Not enough Woodpeckers

10,000 Birds

Or would be, had I encountered more of them – so far, I have seen only a very small share of the approximately 233 woodpecker species, and got decent photos of an even smaller number – not much more than 10% of all of them. So, writing a post about them is easy.

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The Most Birds

10,000 Birds

A recent comment thread on Facebook about absurdly high counts of some species in the eBird database got me curious. What is the most of any one species that has ever been reported at one time? Once you start down such a rabbit-hole it is difficult to stop the plunge into full on data-nerd mode. Painted Buntings ? Gyrfalcons ?

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