You know what is cool? Getting pictures of a bird not seen since two were collected in 1929.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Sure is cool, but maybe not?
I sometimes fear the reason we are seeing so many re-discoveries recently (e.g. in SE Asia) means that there are no true and inaccessable wildernesses left, and people can nowadays go pretty much everywhere. If these people are birders, so much the better. If the interests of those venturing where hardly anyone has gone before are of an economic nature, that might be a bad thing.