Yes. No account, no email, no ads. Pick a place and download the PDF.

Where does the bird data come from?

Public, license-clean records from GBIF, the IOC World Bird List, USGS, and iNaturalist.

Does it work outside the US?

Yes. Every US state, plus countries, continents, and a global list — anywhere with bird occurrence records.

A birding tradition: count how many species you can see in one place over a calendar year. The same approach works for a Big Day, Big Week, or Big Month.

Can I customize my checklist?

Yes. Filter by season, common vs rare, and family before you download.

Big Year Bird Checklist for Washington

A free printable Washington bird checklist. Pick your goal, get the PDF.

Washington's checklist runs from Pacific pelagic waters to the sagebrush of the Columbia Basin, with the rainforest and the Cascades between.

The tool builds you a printable checklist of every bird realistically possible in Washington, grouped by family, with seasonal markers and a space to log the date you spot each one. It's drawn from public, license-clean records — not a generic national list, but the species that actually occur where you're birding.

Pick Washington (or any area inside it), choose your goal — Big Day, Big Month, Big Year, or a life list — and download the PDF. Free, no account, no email. Print it, fold it in a field guide, and start checking birds off.

What you'll find on a Washington checklist

A Washington checklist mixes widespread residents with the specialties that make the state worth a big year. A few you'll want to target:

Tufted Puffin — Pacific-coast seabird.
Marbled Murrelet — Old-growth-nesting alcid.
Sooty Grouse — Coastal-mountain forest grouse.
Spruce Grouse — High-Cascade resident.
White-tailed Ptarmigan — Alpine-zone resident.
Sage Thrasher — Columbia-Basin sagebrush.
Greater Sage-Grouse — A declining shrub-steppe lek bird.
White-headed Woodpecker — Ponderosa specialist.
Sharp-tailed Grouse — A remnant grassland population.
Black Oystercatcher — Rocky-shore resident.
American Dipper — Mountain-stream diver.
American Goldfinch — State bird, year-round.

Your generated PDF includes every realistic species for the exact area you pick, with seasonal markers and a space to log each sighting.

This is a preview. For your full printable list:

Build a complete, customizable Washington checklist — filter by season, by how common a bird is, and by family, then download the PDF.

What kind of list do you need?

Birders use “Big” challenges to make birding count. Pick the timeframe you're working with — we'll tune the list for it.

Better With Birds

Shop the birds you love

Chasing a Washington big year? You're going to like the apparel, prints, and stickers we've designed around these birds.

Tufted Puffin, Marbled Murrelet, Sooty Grouse, Spruce Grouse — all illustrated and designed by Jaymi at Better With Birds. Made-to-order, never mass-printed.