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The 2018 issue of Birder’s Guide to Listing & Taxonomy is currently being mailed. American Birding Association members should be finding it in their mailboxes–within the pages of the December Birding–any day now. But you don’t have to wait until then to see what’s inside. You can see the entirety of this issue [read more…] A review by Dragan Simić The Birder’s Guide to Africa, by Michael Mills Go-Away-Birding, 2017 544 pages, softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14785 “What happened?” “He psyched me out. Made me seasick. I think he thinks I’m doing a Big Year. That is hardcore.” “Are you doing a Big Year?” “No. You?” Me? [read more…] A review by David Liebmann Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World, by Noah Strycker Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017 326 pages—hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14766 Noah Strycker sets four ambitious goals in his latest book: to immerse his readers in different landscapes around the globe, to [read more…] While the 2017 Big Year landscape lacked the wall-to-wall excitement of the year before, with no less than four birders breaking the previous record, many birders in the United States and Canada set notable milestones in both the ABA Area as a whole and their own states and provinces. And while the continental Big Year [read more…] 
On December 19th, 2017, the Recording Standard and Ethics Committee (RSEC) voted unanimously (6-0) to consider the 2017 ABA Checklist additions from Hawaii as provisional species allowable for inclusion on 2016.* 2016’s Big Year ended with a dramatic three-participant run to Hawaii. The RSEC was consulted as to the legitimacy of the inclusion [read more…] The 2017 issue of Birder’s Guide to Listing & Taxonomy is at the printers. American Birding Association members should find it in their mailboxes in the next couple weeks. But you don’t have to wait until then to see what’s inside. You can see the entirety of this issue of Birder’s Guide right now. [read more…] Birders in 2016 had the opportunity to live vicariously through the Big Year travels of 4 birders, all of whom passed the previous record in what was certainly among most remarkable birding accomplishments ever, or at least the most fun to follow. 2017 is looking like a great year as well, and as fall migration [read more…] The birding adventures of John Weigel, Olaf Danielson, Laura Keene, and Christian Hagenlocher sucked up a lot of the air this year, but there were a number of other birders taking on Big Years in their states and provinces, many of whom set new records in 2016. Photos of birders gleaned from various web and [read more…] Congratulations are in order for Olaf Danielson, Christian Hagenlocher, Laura Keene, and John Weigel for their impressive ABA Area Big Year totals in 2016. I think I can speak for many in the ABA and birding communities when I say that it has been great fun to watch these four birders do what no one [read more…] We’re down to the last five days of 2016, the sharp end of a year that saw four birders break the ABA Big Year record set in 2013 by Massachusetts birder Neil Hayward. This is a quick roundup of where our four birders are with fewer than 200 hours left to chase birds for the [read more…] |
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