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Report by Bob Boekelheide The 2025 Migratory Bird Count and Clallam County Birdathon, held on May 10, is in the books. Overall, it wasn’t our worst year, but it wasn’t our best year, either, with a low species count and moderate numbers of birds. On count day, 76 participants in 59 parties counted 20,151 individual birds of 161 species. The species count scored below the average number of species for the last 30 years (average species count = 180), equaling 2023 for the lowest species count. However, if you add in the 14 “count week” species, which includes those seen from three days before to three days after the count, our total rises to a much healthier 175 species. We didn’t come close to our record number of species (203 in 2012) or record number of individuals (33,537 in 2010). Click here for the 2025 results. Making up for the low species count, this year we tallied the highest number of individual birds since 2016. The high number of birds comes largely through the efforts of … Learn More __________________
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