For an entertaining read check out Accidental Big Year a blogspot blog by Neil Hayward who may have broken the ABA big year record held by Sandy Komito of The Big Year movie and book fame.  The 746th ABA listed bird plus 3 ABA provisional birds was Great Skua on Dec 28th out of North Carolina.  This puts him at one above the 745 big year of Komito, and one above the 748 of Komito including his 3 provisionals that were accepted.

I did not know that officially on an ABA big year birds seen that are subsequently accepted onto the ABA list don’t count as they were not listable when seen.

Anyway it’s quite a year detailed nicely on his blog.  Check it out.