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Welcome to Big Year Birding, a site devoted to Birds as seen through the eyes of Ethan and Ingrid Whitaker. We are a Maine couple doing a 2024 Big Year across the continental United States.

Our most recent Blog Posts:

Bird Field Guide for Kids

September 20, 2026

Find it in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bird-field-guide-for-kids/id1666078962 Bird Field Guide for Kids Discover birds. Learn what makes them special. Then...

Ethan and Ingrid discover a birding hot spot in their own back yard.

May 20, 2026

California Birding on a Family Vacation

April 8, 2026

Birding the Southwest – February 2026

February 28, 2026

Woodpeckers of the United States

February 10, 2026

Driving 1,973 Miles to See One Bird

February 4, 2026

A fun recap of Ethan and Ingrid's Twitch of a Smith's Longspur

There is a Rare Bird in Our Yard

November 28, 2025

Join us for a Big Year Zoom Presentation

October 18, 2025

American Bittern

May 11, 2025

Snowy Owl

March 1, 2025

Bird’s Eye View Podcast

February 26, 2025

Ingrid and I are on the latest Edition of the Bird's Eye View Podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s4-e7-from-sea-to-shining-sea-a-couples-big-year/id1710429878?i=1000696137190

EVERY BIRD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA now on Audible

February 9, 2025

Tundra Bean-Goose

February 2, 2025

EVERY BIRD FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

January 24, 2025

Ethan and Ingrid’s 2024 Big Year – FINAL RECAP OF THE ENTIRE ADVENTURE

December 31, 2024

Ethan and Ingrid’s 2024 Big Year (Week 49)

December 11, 2024

https://youtu.be/ojCJljxn0Fw You're in luck . . . another weekly recap. This time we travel to Nantucket, Massachusetts, home of the...

Ethan and Ingrid’s 2024 Big Year (Week 48)

December 4, 2024

Ethan and Ingrid’s 2024 Big Year (Week 46 and 47)

November 28, 2024

Ethan and Ingrid’s 2024 Big Year (Week 44 and 45)

November 17, 2024

Ethan and Ingrid’s 2024 Big Year (Week 43)

November 3, 2024

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