Say What?

Though it sounds like an “I do” and chicken dance might be involved, a Big Day is actually a birding event where an individual or team of birders attempt to see as many birds as possible in one calendar day. A Big Year is similar in that a birder tries to list as many birds as possible within a defined area (county, province, state, country) within a calendar year. The American Birding Association coined the term , but it was made a little more famous by the likes of Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin in the.