<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Tweeters & InlandNW Birder<div><br><div>An updated version of the 2024 County Yearlist Project is up and available at Washington Birder.</div><div><a href="http://wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html">http://wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>Thanks compilers for all your work, and thanks everyone who has contributed.</div><div><br></div><div>This update, coming at the end of October and as Fall Migration has pretty much wrapped up, is a relatively stable point to check in - only a few late migrants and then winter birds left for the year lists.</div><div><br></div><div>Here’s how things look compared with recent years:</div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>We’ve tallied 389 species statewide as of the end of October in 2024</b>. That’s exactly the same total as we had at this point last year, two higher than in 2022, and 12 lower than our 2021 total [401] at this point.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>For Western WA, our 362 total </b>is 3 lower than last year, and 3 higher than 2022.</div><div><br></div><div><b>For Eastern WA, our 323 total</b> is 1 lower than last year, and 2 lower than 2022.</div><div><br></div><div>Overall, we’re looking pretty similar to last year.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Looking at the percentage of each county’s total list seen, 30 counties have seen between 66% and 75% of their county’s total list - a pretty consistent result saying about 2/3 of the birds on any county’s have been found One outlier: Whitman County, which has seen 80% of its list total already this year.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>29 counties </b>have totals within 10 of their 2023 totals.</div><div><b>20 counties</b> have higher totals than this time last year, while 18 have lower totals than at this point last year. </div><div>One county has exactly the same total as at this point last year [Yay, Stevens!].</div><div><br></div><div><b>89 species have been seen in all 39 counties</b>, and 175 species have been found in 30 or more counties.</div><div><br></div><div><b><div style="font-weight: normal;">A handful of species new to the year might yet show up - most likely before thew new year might be: Emperor Goose, King Eider, Snowy Egret, W. Cattle Egret, White-tailed Kite, Hooded Oriole, Tennessee Warbler,… We’ve also got a couple potential additions waiting for the WBRC annual meeting reviews.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">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: </div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wabirder.com/__;!!JYXjzlvb!zG34Bg6bHN7DFbBBUaTDwShMg1FqqyJYn5MFZzMWbfTt3uAOqMTkSTJu0EzT-2kdesFyODa5qw$">http://www.wabirder.com/</a> <br><br><br>A direct link to the 2024 county yearlist & the list of county compilers contact info:<div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html__;!!JYXjzlvb!zG34Bg6bHN7DFbBBUaTDwShMg1FqqyJYn5MFZzMWbfTt3uAOqMTkSTJu0EzT-2kdesFgZPFJVA$">http://www.wabirder.com/county_yearlist.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><br></div><br><div><b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;">Thanks to all the compilers and all those pitching in to sketch a picture of another year's birds in WA. </div></div></div></b></div><div><b><div style="font-weight: normal; display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><br></div></div></div></b></div><div>Good birding,</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>[mattxyz at earthlink dot net]</div><div>Seattle, Wa</div></div></b></div></div></body></html>