If Dorian Anderson could spend his entire year riding a bike across the country, seeing as many birds as possible, and blogging about it, I should be able to keep a blog going for the entire year of 2015 while going about my regular life! Too often the last few years I've allowed cat herding, both literally and metaphorically, to get in the way of blogging. Let's see how I do this year!
Dorian's Green Big Year was highly inspiring for me. He set out an audacious challenge for himself and persevered, raising awareness and money for The Conservation Fund along the way. It impressed me how he managed to keep it up in the face of adversity--whether it was really terrible access to food, gawd-awful head winds, getting hit by a minivan, or seeing too many birds as road-kill. Furthermore his blog was educational, both through the knowledge that he shared and even by the things he didn't really talk about during the year: the kind of preparation just on the birds alone it takes to pull off his year. Aspects such as what the migration patterns are, whether a bird will be singing on territory or not when he passes through, and what that song or call is.
This year, another self-proclaimed bird nerd is doing a Global Big Year. Noah Stryker is starting his year off in Antarctica, and like Dorian is going to set out on a generally defined route, rather than the out and back reaction-type travel that makes up many ABA big years. Noah's premise is that birds know nothing about borders, so why should we take them into account? I look forward to following his blog this year--gaining inspiration and learning about birds around the world.
I will add pictures of both when I update this post. Happy 2015 everybody.
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