[Tweeters] 2025 Washington Birder List and Big Day Reports

[Matt Bartels via Tweeters]

Hi all -

Happy to announce the 2025 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 2025 - http://wabirder.com/online.html <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://wabirder.com/online.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!klyGfMaiYiakJTdtJjhCpnIXCByCMv-JnymPOylNMJ8Db4R8vrwdZ11wpoKJTTo6BeUW4j7FdewQtXQgqf3rxkEtN2z_$>

Highlights for the year:
Eight birders tallied over 300 species in the state in 2025.

New County big year records were set this year for four counties:
Columbia County: Christopher, Lindsey with 197 species
Garfield County: RJ Baltierra, with 186 species
Jefferson County: Steve Hampton, with 225 species (tied w/ his 2024 record)
Okanogan County: Matthew Danielson, with 258 species

The highest ever state big day record was recorded, with 210 species was achieved on 17 May 2025 by  Liam Hutcheson, Louis Kreemer, Jacob Miller and Alex Sowers. 

Highest ever county big days were reported for three counties
Okanogan County by Eric Heisey and DJ Jones [in 2024]
Mason County by Liam Hutcheson and Jacob Miller
Klickitat County by Liam Hutcheson and Samuel Holman
 
 
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://www.wabirder.com/docs/listreport2025.pdf


And a direct link to the Big Day report from 2025 is here: http://www.wabirder.com/docs/2025BigDayReport.pdf



Thanks  to everyone who sent in your totals, and here’s to many more updates and surprises in 2026.


Matt Bartels
Washington Birder
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