Well that was a lot of fun. My only trip to the USA in 2024, normally I go a lot more often but time is as ever on the short side and I had had other things that I had wanted to do. The full eBird trip list is here, with all checklists and locations. Since Bradders had joined me we had seen 177 species, of which five were ABA ticks. As usual I've also prepared the below summary, but rather than day by day I've done it State by State which has been one of the major reasons for the trip in the first place. We visited ten if you count Texas at the beginning and New York at the end. Top honours went to Arkansas with 88 species, followed by Louisiana with 77 and Alabama with 75. Of the core eight States I'd been birding in Illinois before, and visited Kentucky on a non-birding trip, but the other six were completely new to me and thus I've managed to fill in another big block of the eBird map which I am so keen on. I've now birded in 36 States, and visited 40, so it's going reasonably well. If you look at the map below, with the exception of Alaska the grey ones are in blocks and look doable in exactly this kind of trip. I do worry about Iowa though!
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