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 Santa Barbara
County Lister's
Do you maintain a Santa Barbara County Life List? Here you
can participate in a (mostly) non-competitive game of sharing
your county list totals with others. If you have at least 300 species
on your county list you can add your name to the page. Simply send your current count along with
comments, memorable milestones, your
biggest hits and misses, and you will be
added to the Lister's page. A total of 400 is a milestone
worthy of special recognition and places participants in the
exclusive "400 CLUB"
- a pinnacle of
birding accomplishments. Contact the
WEBMASTER to
participate.
Big Day & Big Year
Listing
In William Dawson's quote above (The Condor, 1913 -
"Santa Barbara All-Day Test"), he alludes to his sense of
exhilaration in attempting an early Santa Barbara County "Big Day" contest
of sorts, or
as he referred to it in his day, "Bird-horizoning".
Local birders have since continued to chase birds in the hopes of
reaching a new
high count for the day or at the end of a birding "Big Year". Records were meant
to be broken, and every birder involved in such a challenge
knows the rewards and disappointments in trying to break
previous records. These contest pages are dedicated to all the Santa
Barbara County Big Day and Big Year participants and to
those who attempt to break their records.
ABA Big Day Report
: :
LINK
The official
ABA Big Day and List Report
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