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2007 Big Sit! Stats

Participating States/Countries: 49 (Previous record: 54 in 2005)

Total Circles: 199 (New Record! Previous record was 170 circles in 2005)

Reported Sitters!: 161 (current BWD count)

Total Species Observed Worldwide: 876 (current BWD count)

Total North American (US and Canada) Species Observed: 415 (current BWD count)

Ten Highest Circle Counts

1. Los Osos, California (United States) – "SLO Birders" – Jim Royer – 115
2. Cape May Point, New Jersey (United States) – "Cape May Weirdapillars" – Jessie Barry – 115
3. Milford, Connecticut (United States) – "B.W. Surf Scopers" – Frank Gallo – 101
4. Reed's Beach, New Jersey (United States) – "Team Jaeger" – Tom Reed – 98
5. Almere, Other (Netherlands) – "anser anser" – Ton Eggenhuizen – 94
6. Pea Island NWR, North Carolina (United States) – "Pea Island NWR" – Jeff Lewis – 90
7. Maasvlakte/Rotterdam, Other (Netherlands) – "Waarneming.nl" – Dylan Verheul – 89
8. Segerstad, Oland isl, Other (Sweden) – "Segerstads fyr" – Christian Cederroth – 88
9. Dordrecht, Other (Netherlands) – "Lazy Biesbosch Birders" – Sander Terlouw – 87
10. Wagontown, Pennsylvania (United States) – "Hibernia Park Early Birders" – Larry Lewis – 84

State Totals: United States

(Compiled from reported results only)

Format: State - # 2007 species (# 2006) species
Alabama - 94 (0)	Montana - 0 (0)
Alaska - 0 (0)	Nebraska - 0 (0)
Arizona - 130 (106)	Nevada - 0 (0)
Arkansas - 0 (0)	New Hampshire - 47 (0)
California - 152 (135)	New Jersey - 153 (156)
Colorado - 38 (87)	New Mexico - 22 (21)
Connecticut - 147 (97)	New York - 67 (76)
Delaware - 81 (0)	North Carolina - 137 (104)
Florida - 99 (119)	North Dakota - 64 (0)
Georgia - 68 (30)	Ohio - 131 (12)
Hawaii - 0 (0)	Oklahoma - 98 (68)
Idaho - 0 (56)	Oregon - 104 (92)
Illinois - 33 (30)	Pennsylvania - 117 (88)
Indiana - 76 (94)	Rhode Island - 0 (0)
Iowa - 55 (57)	South Carolina - 93 (93)
Kansas - 0 (0)	South Dakota - 24 (29)
Kentucky - 0 (30)	Tennessee - 53 (86)
Louisiana - 73 (88)	Texas - 175 (167)
Maine - 66 (0)	Utah - 58 (46)
Maryland - 109 (129)	Vermont - 27 (16)
Massachusetts - 43 (0)	Virginia - 106 (124)
Michigan - 96 (71)	Washington - 79 (81)
Minnesota - 63 (61)	West Virginia - 46 (45)
Mississippi - 50 (32)	Wisconsin - 68 (60)
Missouri - 76 (84)	Wyoming - 0 (0)

International Totals

(Compiled from reported results only)

Format: Country - # 2007 species (# 2006) species
Australia - 0 (85)
Canada - 56 (32)
Denmark - 0 (0)
Hungary - 0 (0)
Germany - 51 (0)
India - 32 (28)
Mexico - 0 (0)
Netherlands - 235 (76)
Panama - 38 (43)
Peru - 0 (0)
Spain - 0 (0)
South Africa - 0 (0)
Sweden - 88 (78)
Thailand - 21 (0)
United Kingdom - 84 (83)
Vietnam - 0 (0)