[Tweeters] 2025 Washington Birder List and Big Day Reports

[David Kreft via Tweeters]

Thank you, Matt !!

Dave Kreft
Kettle Falls

On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 9:31 AM Matt Bartels via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> 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:*

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>    - *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*

>

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>    - *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

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>

> 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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