The Big Year Podcast
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I began my birding journey in 2012 having never picked up a pair of binoculars. I decided to learn by doing an ABA,(American Birding Association), Big Year and finished with 600 species. 10 years later, in 2022 I did a Canada Big Year, and counted 456 species. Now I get to talk to the birders of the Big Year, from Sandy Komito who was the first birder to do two Big Years, to Eve Morrell who was only the second woman to see more than 760 species in the continental ABA Area and provincial Big Year Birder, Karen Miller, who still holds the New Brunswick...
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Recent episodes
- Season 4, Episode 7: Riley Black and the Origins of Birds
- Season 4, Episode 6: Ellen and Jerry Horak's 2025 Canada Big Year
- Season 4, Episode 5: Tarik Shahzad's Cook County Big Years
- Season 4, Episode 4: Back on the Road, Again
- Season 4, Episode 3: Tobin Brown’s Nebraska Big Year, and a Whooping Craine update
- Season 4, Episode 2: Canadian Astronaut Roberta Bondar, and A Space for Birds
- Season 4, Episode 1: Josh van der Meulen’s 2012 Ontario Big Year
- Season 3, Episode 8: Ellen and Jerry Horak's Big Years
- Season 3, Episode 7: Liam Ragan’s Victoria Island, BC Big Year
- Season 3, Episode 6: On the Road, Again