Big Year Birding 2025. Whether you’re new to birding or a grizzled veteran, you’ve likely heard of a big year, where birders compete with themselves — and one another — to see the most species over the course of a year. While ingrid and i are planning to do a real big year in 2025, traveling all over the usa and canada.
If you are among the many who do not know what a “big year” is, it is typically a yearlong bird spotting challenge among birders with the goal of identifying and documenting as many bird. A big year is a birding competition or challenge that involves attempting to observe or hear as many bird species as possible within a specific geographic area, typically a particular country.