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We're sitting in a hotel ballroom in a small beach town on the northeast coast of the United States.
It's Sunday morning.
It's also Mother's Day in the US.
But the 200 odd people gathered today are not here to clink their glasses and give their mums flowers.
They're here... for an awards ceremony.
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 42nd Annual World Series of Birding Awards Brunch.
How about a big round of applause for everybody here?
The World Series of Birding is an annual tournament held in Cape May on the southern tip of the state of New Jersey.
It's a 24-hour race where teams compete to identify the greatest number of bird species.
The tournament had finished just 10 hours earlier and awards were given out in a whole range of categories.
The overall winners ended up spotting almost 200 different bird species.
But one of the biggest cheers of the morning was given to a team that barely got a fifth of that total.
One of their members got up to the microphone near the end of the ceremony.
Hi everyone, my name is Stephanie Bilkey and I'm a member of the Galbatrosses.
The Galbatrosses are one of just a few all-female teams,
and they were not expecting to win the World Series of Birding.
In fact, the last time they competed, in 2019,
they were second to last behind a team called Tiny Tots, made up of literal toddlers.