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Chris Howard Chris and Rosie Howard begin and end most days sitting on the love seat, staring out the living room window at all the birds in the field behind their house.  Bishop residents for 29 and 49 years respectively, their yard is listed as 11th in California for number of species on eBird yard lists. In addition to birding their patch of the planet, Chris and Rosie have sought feathered friends in Central America, mainland Ecuador, the Galapagos, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Thailand, Bhutan, Australia, Africa, Alaska, Hawaii, and Europe. Chris has been the compiler and organizer of the Bishop Christmas Bird Count for over two decades and is the Vice-chair of the California Bird Records Committee. Rosie is a retired educator who taught Birds in the Classroom for twelve years in Bishop Schools. She completed the California Naturalist Program transect of the Sierra in 2017. Chris and Rosie are the Inyo County subregional editors for North American Birds (NAB). Their greatest accomplishment is that two of their nine grandchildren want to be Yosemite National Park Interpretive Rangers.