Welcome to the Big Year Podcast
I just completed a Canada Big Year in 2022, seeing and hearing 456 species over the course of birding 365 days straight. I travelled back and forth across the country all year and visited the most incredible birding locations Canada has to offer.
In our debut episode of The Big Year Podcast, we will be talking to one of the first kings of Big Year birding, Sandy Komito. He did his first Big Year in 1987 and was only the second birder to ever see more that 700 species in the ABA Area in a single year, breaking the previous record. In 1998 he decided to use his experience from the first Big Year and attempt a second Big Year, which at the time, no one had ever done.
That year, in competition with Greg Miller and Al Levantin, he broke his own record with 748 species that stood until 2013, when Neil Hayward counted a new record 749. However, Sandy set his records in an era when rare bird alerts were very limited, there was no GPS, cell phones and the internet were still in their early stages and there were 100 fewer countable birds on the ABA List.
The Big Year Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts Spotify and anywhere else you listen to your favorite Podcasts, including Amazon/Audible and Podbean
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