Ordway Lab Director Scott Robinson was on a team that set a new Big Day record for the most species of birds observed at a site in a single day. He and a team of ornithologists from Peru and the United States detected 374 species at the Cocha Cashu biological station in the rainforest of southern Peru. The event was part of a larger effort to examine how rainforest bird communities respond to climate change and habitat succession over long periods of time by resampling  a 100ha forest plot originally surveyed by Scott and his doctoral mentor, John Terborgh, in the 1980s. For Scott the achievement was particularly poignant given that he and the late Ted Parker set the original Big Day record at the same site some 30 years previously.  Team members included two other UF affiliates, Jose Miguel Ponciano (Dept. of Biology) and Ari Martinez (former Ordway Lab graduate student), as well as John Terborgh (Duke University), John Fitzpatrick (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), and Thomas Valqui (CORBIDI).