[Tweeters] County Year List Project at the half-way point for 2023

[Matt Bartels]

Hi Tweeters and Inland NW Birders -

An updated version of the 2023 County Year List Project is up and available at Washington Birder. All 39 counties sent in updates of the year list at the mid-way point. Thanks compilers for all your work, and thanks everyone who has contributed.

I think of the mid-year check-in as a relatively stable time of year to compare across years — The end of June finds us mostly done with spring migration, and still ahead of fall migration. Fall shorebird migration is already picking up though, so a few early returns might be in here.

Here’s how things look compared with recent years:

We’ve tallied 365 species statewide as of the mid-way point in 2023. That’s almost exactly on the average total at this point [364], though it is two lower than 2022 at this point.

In Western WA, our 335 total is 1 higher than last year’s at this point. The total ties our highest for this point since 2012, and we are above average [326] by a good amount

In Eastern WA, our 296 species tallied is ten lower than last year at this point. This is our lowest total for E WA on over a decade..

29 Counties have a total within 10 species of the check-in at this point last year -although still a lot of consistency, this seems to show more variation than usual from this point last year.

13 counties are higher than they were at this  point last year, 25 are lower, and 1 [Snohomish] was at exactly the same total as last year’s check-in.

60 species have been seen in all 39 counties (last year that number was 64). and 153 species have been found in 30 or more counties — that’s our core of wide-spread regulars, and pretty similar to other years at this point.

If you'd like to take a look at where things stand, the list and many other interesting files are at the Washington Birder website: 

http://www.wabirder.com/ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wabirder.com/__;!!JYXjzlvb!zG34Bg6bHN7DFbBBUaTDwShMg1FqqyJYn5MFZzMWbfTt3uAOqMTkSTJu0EzT-2kdesFyODa5qw$> 


A direct link to the 2023 county yearlist & the list of county compilers contact info:
http://www.wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!zG34Bg6bHN7DFbBBUaTDwShMg1FqqyJYn5MFZzMWbfTt3uAOqMTkSTJu0EzT-2kdesFgZPFJVA$>


Thanks to all the compilers and all those pitching in to sketch a picture of another year's birds in WA.  

Good birding,



Matt Bartels 
Seattle, WA 
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