Finally, see last week species count per year and total for the #BirdsSeenIn challenge!
We are starting on solid grounds with this bluesky only #BirdsSeenIn2026 challenge this year, which is in the range of last year count for mid April!
The first entry ever for Kiribati in the #BirdsSeenIn challenge!
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Thanks to Paul, our creator (of the #BirdsSeenIn challenge) for sending in new species to the challenge! :D
That's the species count for all #BirdsSeenIn years and the total since 2021!
Not a bad start for a bluesky only challenge this year, with already 1783 species recorded this year across the world!
Keep them coming!
Welcome everyone to another year of our #BirdsSeenIn friendly challenge!
Really glad to already see many contributions from all around the world for the #BirdsSeenIn2026 challenge!
Please share you bird pictures taken this year, adding the location and the hashtag to it!
Here's this week summary!
📊 In 2025, we have added 400+ new species to the #BirdsSeenIn challenge!
We started the year at 9187 species across the world and we are now at 9630! 70 were added this last month!
If you have been following the challenge since 2021, you have seen ca. 80% of the bird of the world in your feed!!
Happy new year everyone! 🥳
Here comes the last summary of the #BirdsSeenIn2025 challenge!
For the fourth year in a row,🥇Brazil achieve victory in the #BirdsSeenIn challenge, reaching the 1k species mark! Congrats!!
🥈Second is USA with 729 species and
🥉just on their tail, India with 714 species!
That's a handful of new species for Australia's bird list in the #BirdsSeenIn challenge, thanks to @leitchbird.bsky.social and Elke Link!
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We have 150 participants now, mostly thanks to the #BirdsSeenIn challenge founder @britishnatureguide.bsky.social, that pushed new species from many countries this week!
Still many new species brought by you, the many contributors to the #BirdsSeenIn2025 challenge! Thank you all!
New species for Australia and the #BirdsSeenIn challenge!
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That's two new species for Australia's bird list in the #BirdsSeenIn contest, thanks to @leitchbird.bsky.social and Kye Turnbull!
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A bunch of new species for Australia this year and this one for the #BirdsSeenIn contest all together by @leitchbird.bsky.social!
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Defo a new species for the #BirdsSeenIn challenge!
And that's a first species entered for San Marino in the #BirdsSeenIn challenge :)
One graph I should have made sooner: the number of species per year in the #BirdsSeenIn challenge!
We are off a good start!!
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Just looked it up, we have added 20 species to the 2021-2025 #BirdsSeenIn challenge this year! It's getting tricky to add more but surely and slowy getting there! (2000ish missing still (: )
#BirdsSeenIn challengers, another summary of our 2025 contest: this is top 40, England keeps going strong but India is slowly catching up!
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New week, new summary! Thanks everyone for participating in the 5th edition of the #BirdsSeenIn challenge!
Here is the top 40 of the third week of the #BirdsSeenIn2025 challenge
England keeps the lead and Canada and Malaysia join the top 10!
Middle spotted is a new species for Switzerland in the #BirdsSeenIn challenge!
Good garden species added to Ireland 2025 #BirdsSeenIn list by @brianecarruthers.bsky.social!
Two new species for Panama's #BirdsSeenIn list by @metapa3625.bsky.social! And two others new for this year!
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That's two new species for Italy in the #BirdsSeenIn challenge, which is running since 2021!
It's a good segue into thanking the creator of the #BirdsSeenIn challenge @britishnatureguide.bsky.social for his help and contribution to many country lists in 2024!!
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Another interesting stat is that we blew away the number of species recorded in the challenge since 2021, with 7796 species entered across the world!
It shows the increasing participation to the #BirdsSeenIn challenges with the years, and that's awesome!
Continue the trend in 2025 :)
Most recorded species in the #BirdsSeenIn: Great egret (Ardea alba)!
It's been recorded in 90 countries/territories btw 2021-2024 and 58 times in 2024 alone!
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Dear all, looking at the data of the #BirdsSeenIn challenge, we just crossed the 9000 species tick between 2021-2024 during this November!
Only 2097 species to record in order to check all the species listed in the checklist of the IOC 13.1!
(But more species arrive in the 14.2)
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