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No new year birds in December.  I finished the year at 667 species, which is far and away the most I have ever seen in a single year, and I almost certainly will never exceed that total.  40 of those species were lifers.

 

My US total for 2013 was 319 species, of which 6 were lifers.  All of those were seen in the three West Coast states.

 

In 2014 I plan to once again put out a report on each day that I see a new species for the year.  I’m not planning any trips away from the West Coast this year, so my goal is to exceed 300 species again.  Ideally, I would try to exceed the 319 I saw this year, but I’d have to return to Southern California to do that, as well as do a lot of Washington State trips.  We will see how it goes.

 

I also plan to do an additional birding thing – Bird-A-Day, or B-A-D birding, more simply referred to as BAD birding.  Each day I will choose one species that I saw or conclusively heard that day, and I’ll designate that species as my Bird of the Day.  The idea is to see how many days in a row I can keep adding a new species to the list, without repeating a species or skipping a day.  I’ll put more details on the 2014 Reports page.