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Reactions to my Big Year in Rotterdam have been threefold: [1] your target is ambitious but doable, [2] your target is too high, and you will never reach it and [3] hahahahaha. People in group 1: thank you for your kind support. Those in group 2 and 3… Is there a method to my madness? Well, I did go through a semi-scientific approach based on past data to come to a target.
This post was originally published on December 07, 2019. It is republished in our new “From the Archives” series, by which we want to draw attention to our vast back catalog of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so. Watching birds, birding, is inexorably tied to autonomous motivation.
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