For close to 3 decades I’ve watched with joy and marvel as my guest Charlie Wright has grown from a precocious child birder in our county to a respected, talented and extraordinary leader of our birding community.
Charlie was involved with eBird from its very early days, with his first eBird list in 2006, and you can see his earliest eBird list, put in at a later date from his prior checklist, where he lists his spark bird Western Tanager which started it all for Charlie.

He went on to become one of the first if not the first eBird regional reviewer for WA, and he has been instrumental in refining the filters and hotspots in WA on eBird. Charlie notes eBird as a project to support for birders, and you can see how to do that here.
Charlie talks about his work on research ships, his work on Alaskan Islands banding passerines, his work with Kitlitz Murrelet. Imaging racing in a small boat in the ocean off Alaska to capture a small murrelet off the water in the dark! Then flying in a helicopter to find their nests high on glaciers, and exploring Peregrine Falcon nests to see if the murrelets are being eaten by the falcons! Cool stuff.
Charlie is the data reviewer for COASST, a program for surveying the dead birds that are found on the Pacific coast beaches.
As always thanks for listening and reading.
Good birding and good day!