Check out this article in SF Weekly about Josiah Clark’s and Dominik Mosur’s green big day adventure:
http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-04-27/news/bird-watching-bike-world-record-matt-smith/
Also, Dominik’s post to SFBirds below:
Yesterday, I set out on a biking big day with Josiah Clark and Brian
Turner (joined for part of the morning by SFWeekly writer Matt Smith)
As I rode out to the concrete bridge at South Lake Merced to meet my team, AMERICAN ROBINS, CALIFORNIA TOWHEES and DARK-EYED JUNCOS were already singing away at 5:00 a.m.
At the bridge we added a fly-by GREEN HERON and MALLARDS in the dawn’s
early light while BARN and TREE SWALLOWS could already be heard vocalizing overhead, mingling with sound of foraging bats. MOURNING DOVE, MARSH WREN, COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, SONG SPARROW, NUTTALL’S WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, BREWER’s BLACKBIRD and LESSER GOLDFINCH added to the “dawn chorus.” Continue reading →