The 2024 Virginia Birding Classic results are in! The inaugural year of this event was an amazing success, thanks to the 28 teams that scoured the Commonwealth for as many species as they could find on public lands in 24 hours. Participants identified more than 200 species during the competition!
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) wishes congratulations to the winners:
1st Place: 132 species
The Twitchers: Steven Myers, Amy Myers, Andrew Baldelli, and June McDaniels
2nd Place: 122 species
The Birdbrains: Chopper Dawson, Ewa Greene, Alan Cumbia, and Paul Bedell
3rd Place: 96 species (constrained themselves to birding DWR Wildlife Management Areas [WMAs]!)
The DoWitcheRs: DWR staff members Carolyn Rubinfeld, Michael Lipford, Jeff Trollinger, Mallory Gyovai White, Stephen Living, and Jenn Allen (non-birding companion Anu Sriperambudur)
Congratulations to this year’s winners, to all the participating teams, and to the Virginia Wildlife Grant Program, which will receive all the proceeds from the event!
The DWR would like to thank our partners in the Virginia Birding Classic: the Virginia Department of Forestry, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Virginia Society of Ornithology, and Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory.