Featured photo by Joyce Bertolacini from the BL Browing Ranch Birdathon

Thank you for participating in Birdathon 2024! With your help, we have raised nearly $50,000 to support our programming that inspires people of all ages across Central Texas.

While everyone who took the time to bird and fundraise with us are winners, we want to announce the champions of the competition:

Most bird species full day (6-24 hours): Gone Pishing (142 species)

Most bird species half day (less than 6 hours): Too Many Coots (110 species)

Most Funds Raised: Gone Pishing ($12,006.52)

Rarest Bird: Gone Pishing (Black-whiskered Vireo)

Wrangling Wrens: Master Birders (19 individual wrens)

Wrestling Warblers: Birding the Upper Texas Coast with Manomet (17 species)

Neatest Non-bird: That’s So Raven (Rough Greensnake that fell out of a tree)

Most Creative Team Name: Irritable Owl Syndrome

Rookie of the Year: MC Wren

Cherry Springs Birdathon. Photo by Darwin Mann.