[Tweeters] 2023 Washington Birder List and Big Day Reports

[Matt Bartels]

Hi all -

Happy to announce the 2023 Year List & Big Day report for Washington Birder are up and available.
It is always fun to pull together this glimpse of our community.

Check out the files at the following link to see how everyone did in 2023 - http://wabirder.com/online.html <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://wabirder.com/online.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!klyGfMaiYiakJTdtJjhCpnIXCByCMv-JnymPOylNMJ8Db4R8vrwdZ11wpoKJTTo6BeUW4j7FdewQtXQgqf3rxkEtN2z_$>

Highlights for the year:
 Liam Hutcheson set a new Washington State Big Year record with 378 species.

Three people reached 100 species in all 39 counties:
Brian Pendleton
Darchelle Worley 
Ed Pullen

And two people reached 150 species in every county
David Koyama
Penny Koyama

New County big year records were set this year for three counties:
Grays Harbor  Liam Hutcheson, with 250 species
Pacific County: Bill Shelmerdine, with 206 species
SKAGIT County: Joel Brady-Power, with 262 species

Highest ever county big days were reported this year for four counties
Benton County by Rowan Young-McMurchie 
Chelan County by Neil Paprocki and Tucker Jonas
King County by Adrian Lee, Christian Hagenlocher and Raphael Fennimore
Whatcom County by Stephen Chase, Josiah Chase and Titus Chase 

 
 
All that and more is compiled in this year’s report.

A direct link to the list report with all the state & county life and year list totals can be found here: http://wabirder.com/docs/listreport2023.pdf	

And a direct link to the Big Day report from 2023 is here: http://wabirder.com/docs/2023BigDayReport.pdf	



Thanks  to everyone who sent in your totals, and here’s to many more updates and surprises in 2024.


Matt Bartels
Washington Birder

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