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That’s Redgannet’s BBOTY at the top of the post. Read on to find out what it is! 2014 has been a good year for us at 10,000 Birds. We’ve traveled to lots of places, seen lots of great birds, and met lots of great birders. Also, we think we’ve done a pretty good job of sharing our stories with you. Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed them! So, as we’ve done for the last several years we thought we would share our Best Birds of the Year with you. Each Beat Writer was given the opportunity to share their rarity, their oddity, their whatever-it-was-that-made-one-bird-their-Best Bird of the Year. Below are our Best Birds of the Year. What was yours? Let us know in the comments…see you there! Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl, the largest Strix in North America. It was one of two life birds (the other being Cassin’s Vireo) I photographed at the inaugural Mountain Bird Festival in Klamath, Oregon. I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). Later, Harry Fuller, President of the Klamath Bird Observatory, led us to an open meadow where we saw a pair of Great Gray Owls hunting in a meadow. THIS BIRD IS AWARDED BEST BIRD OF THE 2014
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:17:55 +0000

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