Nebraska Big Year 2025
Year List
The year took me all over the state! I ticked year birds in 34 different counties, photographed 243 of them, and got recordings of 135. See the heatmap above to see which counties had the best birds.
Monthly Recaps
Monthly blog posts containing stories, highlights, and photos from the month of birding.
Species added each week
Species Accumulation
Fig 1. Total species acuumulation over the course of year by week. Notice the nice spike the first week of the year, and the bump in Apr-May as migration picked up. A minor uptick in Sep represents fall migration in the west
Species by Month
Fig 2. Total species observed each month, broken down by species new for my year, life and state list, as well as other species (seen in a previous month). Feb was the only month with fewer than 100 species.
Mileage
Fig 3. Miles traveled per month. Many birding trips took me out west, which resulted in 1200+ mile weekends from Lincoln. The goal was to keep MPB under 75...oops
Cost
Fig 4. Costs represented in the graph include hotels, camping fees, and gas, based on avg mileage (24.62) and gas prices ($2.87). The goal was to keep CPB under $15.