Source: From an article on Noah Strycker, titled the Bird Man by Eva Holland. In 2015, Strycker had seen a record 6,042 bird species out of an estimated 10,000 species on the planet. Strycker: “observing birds satisfies a ‘bone-deep, soul-deep need to classify and organize the world around us.” The bird above is Oregon’s State Bird: the Western Meadowlark.