In this year’s Big Day birding competition sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a team comprised of four expert birders set the Virginia state record. Read all about their amazing 24-hour adventure.
On Saturday, October 4, 22 birders awoke before sunrise, loaded into vans, and began our journey from Northern Virginia to Cape May, NJ, our eyes set on this faraway destination perfectly aligned with the Atlantic Flyway, one of the four “avian superhighways” in North America.