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Peter Kaestner, a renowned twitter aspires to become the first birder to spot 10,000 of the planet’s roughly 11,000 avian species. With 9,697 on his eBird list so far, he is getting very close. Yet, a few that he has looked for and not found seem to have magical powers to elude the gaze. A “nemesis bird” keeps you going back and remains tantalizingly out-of-reach, illogically elusive. “It’s a species that eludes you after multiple attempts, especially if the bird was or should have been there,” Mr. Kaestner said. “There is a connotation that something supernatural is getting between you and seeing that bird.” Often the bird is "one common enough that a dedicated birder should have spotted it, but that nevertheless remains unseen, out of reach.” "It’s a bird that drives you crazy, when lots of other twitchers have seen it, even your mum."
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