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Dec 7, 2021 9 tweets 5 min read Read on X
For those of you trying to add a few final birds to your year list, here are some hot tips. #birding
(All photos mine. No for real.) [a thread]
To add a Cackling Goose to your list, find a Canada Goose and back up thirty feet. Boom, Cackling Goose! You’re welcome. #birding
To add a Neotropic Cormorant, find a Double-crested Cormorant and back up thirty feet. Boom, got one! Treat yourself to a daiquiri. (because of the tropical thing) #birding
To add a Ross’s Goose, find a Snow Goose and, yep, back up thirty feet. Ross’s Goose! Is this turning into a Big Year?! Maybe! #birding
To add a Nelson’s Sparrow, find a Song Sparrow and look at it through those yellow Hunter S. Thompson glasses. Boom, rare sparrow. Tell Facebook. #birding
To add a southwestern Pyrrhuloxia to your list, watch a Northern Cardinal while sipping Mexican hot chocolate or something with tequila. Nailed it! You're gonna win eBird this year! #birding
To add a Glaucous Gull, find …any other gull and count it. Boom! The @ABA is hearing rumors about you and they are very impressed. #birding
To add a Greater Scaup, …yep, you guessed it: find a Lesser Scaup and walk a little closer. You’re getting good at this! And your list is poppin’. #birding
That’s all for now. Happy to help. Maybe I’ll post more later. I bet there’s a Bicknell’s Thrush in your back yard if you take off your glasses.
Feel free to submit your own. Happy #birding, everyone!

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