What ebird counts and what a state review committee accepts can be two different things. We had this situation in North Carolina, where origins are unknown and there has been no documentation of successful breeding. WA colony may be s different situation, but I just want to point out that ebird posts do not make birds "countable" for purpose of official state records.

Phil Dickinson
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> On Aug 2, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Joshua Glant <josh.n.glant at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello Tweets,
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> Looking on eBird yesterday I noticed two things about the monk parakeets in Yacolt. For one, most eBird reports for the longtime colony come from just this year. In addition, several top eBirders have counted the parakeets as their most recent state list addition. Has there been a change in the countability of this population?
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> Good birding, Joshua Glant
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