Petoskey Audubon March 10 program “People, Places, Birds: A Quest to Document 100 Bird Species in Every Lower 48 State in 2025”

In 2025, Daniel Bernard embarked on a birding journey as crazy as it was unique: a quest to travel the entire country and see 100 species of birds in every single Lower 48 state, meet up with local birders all across the country and visit birding locales both legendary and unknown.

This live-changing journey to explore the People, Places, and Birds of the American birding world saw Daniel living out of the back of his Subaru Crosstrek and would be filled with hardships and setbacks.  After travelling the farthest South, East, North, and West he’d been, birding with over 300 different birders across the country, and tallying 607 different species, Daniel would accomplish his goal of becoming perhaps the first person ever to see 100 species in every Lower-48 state in a single year.

Daniel Bernard first got into birding in 2018. After a few years of being an on-and-off casual birder, he began to get seriously into it in 2021. In 2022 he began seriously chasing Lifers throughout Michigan. This chasing soon turned into a Michigan Big Year, where he saw 337 species, breaking the previous Michigan Big Year record of 335. Learn more here.

The program is hosted by Petoskey Audubon on Tuesday, March 10 on zoom at 7pm.  The program is free and open to all interested people. Join the program at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83068575096.