<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 everyone -<div>A reminder that we are nearing the deadline to send in your 2025 county and state listing reports. Pull together your life lists, year lists and big days , whether for the entire state or individual counties and send them along.</div><div><br></div><div>The deadline to submit is <b>Saturday</b> Jan 31.</div><div>Forms to submit can be found here: <a href="http://www.wabirder.com/forms.html">http://www.wabirder.com/forms.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to seeing how this past year unfolded for everyone</div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>Seattle WA</div><div>mattxyz [at] earthlink [dot] net<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[Tweeters] Washington Bird List Reports for 2025 - time to send them in</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January 6, 2026 at 5:35:44 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Happy New Year, everyone!<div><div><br></div><div>Now’s the time to wrap up those listing details from 2025 to clear the way for 2026 surprises and goals..<br><div><br></div><div><b>January 31, 2026 </b>is the deadline to send Washington Birder your 2025 List Report.</div><div><br></div><div><b>List Report and Big Day forms are available on the WA Birder website at: <a href="http://www.wabirder.com/forms.html">http://www.wabirder.com/forms.html</a> </b></div><div><br></div><div>It is easiest if you use the online forms to send in reports, but other options are provided as well if needed.</div><div><br></div><div>The annual list report is a great chance to look at the community and appreciate all the many accomplishments out there. </div><div><br></div><div>I believe for 2025 several very high state year lists and I’m sure we have many personal listing personal highs as well - it would be excellent receive that info for the overall report. Regardless of how high or low your totals are, this is a chance to join in the community summary of accomplishments.</div><div><br></div><div>You don’t have to enter details for every category listed, just send in info for those important to you.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">For 2025, we’ve once again added an option to report lists for your 5MR “5 mile radius” list, for those who track that as an extended yard list. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;">w</span>e recommend using the eBird status decisions on local countability of introduced/exotic species.If you are on eBird, almost all the totaling is done for you. Most notably, most western WA counties no longer ‘count’ Ring-necked Pheasant in county life list totals.</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy the new year, and send in the [reports of the] old!</div><div><br></div><div>Matt Bartels</div><div>Washington Birder</div><div>mattxyz [at] earthlink[dot] net</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Tweeters mailing list<br>Tweeters@u.washington.edu<br>http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>