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Big Day team check in: we had bad luck in Rice Country, where we spent far too long looking for shorebird fields. The perfect shorebird field is a rare thing, the water level has to be just right to support a variety of different foraging depths. Today all were too deep or dry.

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Dawn found us in Kisatchie National Forest, where we saw pine specialists like Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Brown-headed Nuthatch alongside breeding warblers and others. Added 23 species at this spot.

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Meet our 2026 Big Day team! We have Brett Kincade and Quinn McCallum from the Mason Lab, and Phoebe Gordon and Gustavo Martins from the Thom lab

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