Date: 5/8/26 6:38 pm From: Cynthia Fleck <00001e6f7aec49da-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: [GABO-L] Jim Hanna - First Birder to 19,000 Georgia eBird Complete Checklists / Other Georgia Birders Making eBird Top 100 Complete Checklist News!
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Happy Birding to all, even to us mere mortals!
Cheers,
Cynthia
On Fri, May 8, 2026, 8:46 PM Mark McShane <
<00001c91b59d7b85-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Super Congrats to Jim Hanna who just went over 19,000 eBird lifetime
> complete checklists for Georgia! Amazingly Jim is on a track to reach
> 20,000 by the end of the year!
>
> The next three Georgia birders who have the most all-time Georgia eBird
> complete checklists are James Gibson, James White, and Kathy Miller, who
> are all sitting basically somewhere within 535 checklists of each other
> right now, at over 14,000 eBird lifetime complete checklists for Georgia!
>
> - - -
>
> Interestingly, in the following eBird Major Regions the following minimums
> are needed to place in the eBird Top 100 for Complete Checklists right
> now. We have three Georgia Birders who have placed into some or all of
> these Top 100 lists! Special Congrats to James Gibson who is the first
> Georgia Birder in the Top 100 on every list!
>
> World Top 100 for Complete Checklists
> 21,214 minimum needed
> James Gibson 66th
>
> Western Hemisphere Top 100 for Complete Checklists
> 20,436 minimum needed
> James Gibson 61st
>
> ABA Area Top 100 for Complete Checklists
> 20,226 minimum needed
> James Gibson 58th
>
> North America Top 100 for Complete Checklists
> 20,177 minimum needed
> James Gibson 59th
>
> ABA Continental Top 100 for Complete Checklists
> 20,083 minimum needed
> James Gibson 57th
>
> USA Top 100 for Complete Checklists
> 18,889 minimum needed
> James Gibson 50th
> Jim Hanna 89th
> James White 96th
>
> USA Lower 48 Top 100 for Complete Checklists
> 18,673 minimum needed
> James Gibson 49th
> Jim Hanna 88th
> James White 94th
>
> Congrats to all three of these very dedicated Georgia birders on their
> multi-decade eBird Top 100 Complete Checklist accomplishments!
>
> - - -
>
> Good Birding All!
>
> Mark
>
> Mark McShane (struggling for 5,000 Georgia eBird complete checklists)
> Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia
>
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