Date: 2/16/26 9:51 am From: David Kreft via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] 2025 Washington Birder List and Big Day Reports
Thank you, Matt !!
Dave Kreft
Kettle Falls
On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 9:31 AM Matt Bartels via Tweeters <
<tweeters...> 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:*
>
>
> - *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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