Almost May - The Urban Birder, Ponc Feliu Latorre and I interview

 

Belfast Lough RSPB Reserve, Biking Birder 2010

                          Hello everyone!

                        Long time no type.

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Last Thursday I had the privilege and immense pleasure of being interviewed by the wonderful Urban Birder, David Lindo.

It will be available on YouTube soon but until then please take enjoy the interview by watching on Facebook . . . 

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Of course the over an hour long video of the interview was about Ponc & I's long rivalry over the European Big Green Big Year (BIGBY) competition, which has been so much fun, providing inspiration behind many of my Green Birding - Biking Birder adventures.

A full year BIGBY is a year when a birder tries to see as many bird species as possible without using any fossil fuel transport.

In the world maybe the best example of this was in 2014 when Dorian Anderson cycled around the USA, seeing 618 bird species.

                Dorian's book is a truly inspirational read!

Ponc Feliu Latorre did a European BIGBY in 2024, an immense BIGBY; he saw 457 birds that year!

Take a look at Ponc's blog from that year, so phenomenally inspiration stuff.

https://www.greenbigyear.com/en/blog/

My own Biking Birder adventures which have involved The European BIGBY record are . . . 

2010 - a whole year cycling tour of all the RSPB and W&WT nature reserves and centres.

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Biking Birder 2010 Scarfell Pyke, Lake District

Biking Birder blog 2010

2015 - a repeat of the 2010 whole year cycling tour of all the RSPB and W&WT nature reserves and centres.

2016 - an attempt at beating Ponc Feliu Latorre's European BIGBY record of 304 bird species seen.

2022 - another attempt at beating Ponc with, this time, a whole year of cycling and NO FERRIES! In fact not one bit of fossil fuel transport did I use that year. So becoming, to my knowledge only the second person in the world to do a PURE GREEN, no fossil fuel transport BIGBY; the other person being of course, Dorian Anderson.

Maybe you know of other Biking Birders. If you do, or if you do your birding by bike, then please comment below or message me on Facebook.

It would be fabulous to hear from you and to hear of your own biking birding adventures.

So Tickle My Feathers or, if you prefer David Lindo's motto . . .

Keep Looking Up!

Love to you all . . . LOVE not hate.

Gary

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