Which state or territory has the most active birders?

["David McDonald (personal)" <>]

Hi. eBird publishes a running tally of the number of checklists submitted, by state/territory.

These are the figures for this year to date.

State/Territory	Lists	Popln '000	Lists per 100,000
Australian Capital Territory	877	391	224
Northern Territory	298	245	122
Queensland	3,960	4,779	83
Tasmania	319	517	62
Victoria	2,975	5,938	50
New South Wales	2,771	7,618	36
Western Australia	819	2,592	32
South Australia	314	1,699	18
Total	12,333	23,779	52

Source: http://ebird.org/content/australia/

The ACT stands out as by far the most active birding jurisdiction, using this data source.

And the ten most active ACT eBirders so far this year:

Name	N of checklists
A Smith	182
Peter Milburn	116
Christine D	46
Ryu Callaway	41
Sandra Henderson	38
Mark Carey	33
Wilber Forsooth	32
Steve Holliday	30
Bill Graham	23
Alistair and Carmen Drake	19

Source: http://ebird.org/ebird/australia/top100?locInfo.regionType=subnational1&locInfo.regionCode=AU-ACT&year=2016&sortBy=num_complete_checklists

For info - David

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