One year ago Gennady Dyakin wrote the post My results of 2015 . When I read this post I thought that is great idea and I need to write the similar post next year. So this year passed. I try to do digitize it. During this year I took photos of 274 species of birds in Kazakhstan, it's the best result in Kazakhstan. My results of previously years are following: 273 species (2015, II place), 272 species (2013, III place), 351 species (2014, I place). It means my average annual result is about 270 species within Kazakhstan. The second conclusion id Big Year competition lost the passion, it is not good or bad, it's fact. Now the numbers in the top-right corner of the window are only counter without competition spirit to most of participants. The cumulative effect of community is also on the previous years' level. All together we photographed 412 species of birds; it's much more than in our friendly communities in neighbor countries and regions. The recent years results: 416 (2015), 424 (2014), [...... read more ]

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