2025 Graphical Summary

My annual tallying up, is inspired by BirdTrack graphics & built from my 2025 @Team_eBird data, previously posted on X.

This year Grok helped me update the Jupyter notebook to create the images using the seaborn package rather than default matplotlib, which I think improved it.

As usual, May was the best month with 135 species seen, a new record for me! November held the most abudance, with 800 individual birds being seen.

Most productive sites (number of species seen per minute of birding time) were two 'My Yards' in Fairfield & nearby Audubon & State Park hotspots.

There were two significant cumulative uplifts from trips to Alaska in July, & from two trips to Florida; the first December 2024 through January 2025 & same again in December 2025 through January 2026, with the effect of starting & ending the year there.

I narrowly missed out on my global target of 300 species, which I've only done once in 2010, but 2025 was the best year since then.

I did hit my Fairfield target of 200 coming in at 216. I hope to regularly see 200 in Fairfield & will then need 'just' 100 species outside of Fairfield!