The Llano Estacado Audubon Society (LEAS), centered in Lubbock, has a very well-kept birding secret: we have 296 regularly-occurring species in our territory! Adding accidental and hypothetical birds brings our species tally to 432, compared to the bird list for the entire state of Texas, which is just over 600. Llano Estacado Audubon Society, incorporated in 1977, encompasses the following 15 counties: Bailey, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Kent, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Motley, Terry and Yoakum. These counties cover 12,713 square miles with elevations ranging from 800 feet in Kent County to >4,400 feet in Bailey County.