Date: 11/5/25 1:16 am From: Mark McShane <00001c91b59d7b85-dmarc-request...> Subject: [GABO-L] All-Time Georgia eBird Complete Checklists - 18000!
Hi All,
Just this past March Jim Hanna reached 17000 Georgia eBird complete checklists (a new record), since then on October 21st Jim reached 18000 (another new record)! In fact, every time Jim submits another Georgia eBird complete checklist he breaks his own and the Georgia all-time record. Jim thinks that there's a chance that he may very well reach 20000 sometime next year in 2026, if not he should in 2027!
Pending any very late checklist submittals (which could change the numbers), 2013 was the first year that a single birder submitted more than 1000 Georgia eBird complete checklists in a single year! Including and since 2013 up until the present Jim has submitted the most Georgia eBird complete checklists for 7 of those 13 years, including an all-time Georgia single-year record of 2085 in 2018! Jim also is the checklist leader for 4 Georgia counties and is in the Top 10 in 29 others!
The available eBird data for years with over 1000 Georgia eBird complete checklists submitted breaks down by year, leader's number, leader, how many other birders submitted over 1000 checklists that year (and who they were in order of total checklists submitted that year, most first), as follows:
2025 - 1545 - Jim Hanna, 1 other over 1000 (Aidan Rodriguez) (as of this writing)
2024 - 1359 - Jim Hanna, 0 others over 1000
2023 - 1121 - Jim Hanna, 2 others over 1000 (Anne Thompson, Joshua Spence)
2022 - 1112 - Joshua Spence, 3 others over 1000 (Anne Thompson, James White, Jim Hanna)
2021 - 1309 - Yve Morrell, 4 others over 1000 (James White, Jim Hanna, James Gibson, Kathy Miller)
2020 - 1345 - James White, 3 others over 1000 (Jim Hanna, Eliot VanOtteren, Patrick Brisse)
2019 - 1413 - Jim Hanna, 5 others over 1000 (Lionel Xavier Horn, James White, Kathy Miller, James Gibson, Eliot VanOtteren)
2018 - 2085 - Jim Hanna, 2 others over 1000 (James White, Kathy Miller)
2017 - 1860 - Jim Hanna, 4 others over 1000 (James Gibson, Kathy Miller, James White, Mark McShane)
2016 - 1930 - James Gibson, 3 others over 1000 (Jim Hanna, Kathy Miller, James White)
2015 - 1260 - James White, 4 others over 1000 (Kathy Miller, Jim Hanna, James Gibson, Patty McLean)
2014 - 1985 - James Gibson, 2 others over 1000 (Josiah Lavender, James White)
2013 - 1582 - Jim Hanna, 2 others over 1000 (Jim and Allison Healy, James Gibson)
Congratulations once again to Jim on reaching a new milestone and on his many Georgia eBird complete checklist related contributions and accomplishments, and to all of the very many Georgia eBirders who have submitted so many Georgia eBird complete checklists on their contributions and accomplishments as well!
There are currently 6 Georgia birders who have submitted more than 10000 all-time Georgia eBird complete checklists (and relatively soon hopefully one of them will have submitted 20000)!
There are currently 25 Georgia birders who have submitted between 5000 and 9999 all-time Georgia eBird complete checklists!
Would ATGeBCC be a good acronym for All-Time Georgia eBird Complete Checklists?
Good Birding All,
Mark
Mark McShane
Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia
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