Hello Everyone, The 2022-2023 Winter Listing season finished on February 28, 2023. This year there was a total of 218 species reported in Ontario. This species total is a little higher than the 16 year average of 207. The median value is 202 for those 16 years. The top three highest years were 2021-2022 with 229, 2011-2012 with 223, and 2015-2016 with 220. The lowest season was 2009-2010 with 189 species. Since my last update to Ontbirds on January 31, new species added are Brewer's Blackbird found by Tim Sabo on December 22, 2022 and the Great Cormorant was seen by Alvan Buckley on December 12, 2022. A roll call of rare birds seen this year include: - White-rumped Sandpiper (seen 2 times in the last 16 years or 2/16) - Pectoral Sandpiper (3/16) - Western Sandpiper (1/16) - Dovekie (1/16) - Razorbill (2/16) - Glaucous-winged Gull (2/16) - Green Heron (0/16) - Warbling Vireo (0/16) - LeConte's Sparrow (0/16) - Yellow-breasted Chat (2/16) - Blackburnian Warbler (0/16) The list can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/myyulvs. Please check out the OFO website for upcoming trips and events http://www.ofo.ca/site/tripsupcoming. The OFO also has a discord group with a Winter bird channel. A link to the OFO discord group is here: https://discord.gg/npbCzXVhZ2. Winter Listers can also communicate on the Ontario Birds Discord Server which can be found here:https://discord.gg/EhvgAc2fwb. As always, please send me an email if you know of a sighting of a missing species observed between December 1, 2022 and February 28, 2023, or if you see any errors in the spreadsheet either from this winter or from winter's past. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to help correct the list. Looking forward to spring, Todd ReplyForward