First of year. An exciting event when you see a returning summer bird, or a winterer / resident that you missed out on earlier in the year! Usually, FOY is not used when referring to rare birds, because there is a good chance that that bird is by default an FOY.

Hope that my definition was helpful! Joshua Glant

Mercer Island, WA

Josh.n.glant at gmail.com



> On Mar 14, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Nancy <sday13 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> What does FOY stand for?
>
> Nancy
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