Date: 11/18/25 3:26 pm From: Jim Betz via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] Re WA County Year List Project updated through October 2025
Dennis,
Number of birders should track directly to the slightly different
"number of
eBirders". Which, probably in today's world, means "number of new
birders" ... which is unlikely to produce new/uncommon/rare species ... ?
And there seems, at least to me, to be a growing number (percentage?) of
birders who are simply uninterested in the unusual/rare birds - nor even
particularly interested in metrics such as Life Lists, etc. Most of the
"new
to birding people that I meet and talk to" are younger and simply don't
consider such things important ("I'm not a competitive birder.").
And let's not forget the kinds of attrition we are seeing where older
birders are no longer birding, experienced birders are moving away, etc.
I often meet people who don't even know about eBird and/or don't use it.
