While out birding this morning on what is forecast to be the start of a several day heat wave, I hit a big milestone when it comes to eBird when I submitted my 50,000th complete list (I have also submitted several hundred more incidental/incomplete lists). My milestone list turned out to be an early morning stop at Winsor Dam, a place I bird quite a bit and a spot that has produced many rare birds for me over the years including three first Hampshire County records that I found including White tailed Tropicbird, King Eider and Pacific Loon. Very happy to have the list be from one of my favorite birding spots.
During this time I have seen or heard a total of 2002 species in a total of 27 countries plus several other dependencies and territories (with species #2000 on a trip to Costa Rica in March of this year, species, species #1500 in Iceland in July 2019 and species #1000 on a trip to Ecuador in Nov 2015). I have submitted photos for 1315 species and recordings of 385 species. I have submitted lists from as far south as southern Brazil, as far north as Iceland, as far west as Alaska and as far east as Austria. I look forward to continuing on this journey as long as possible.
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