Ever since I have started birding I've become a real list maker. I keep a life list of birds, a yearly list of bird and a backyard list of birds. I really need to get a life. LOL
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Posted 05 June 2012 - 10:13 PM
LOL!!
ABA list: 295 Latest: Swamp Sparrow
2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 12:05 AM
What other lists are there? State lists, county lists, lists for both male and female, nest lists, birds you've seen dead lists, birds you've seen as rarities in the area you've seen them lists.
Let's list some lists.
Let's list some lists.
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 12:35 AM
Favorite list, Birdie Bucket List 
, Feeder List, Garage List, I might think of more.
, Feeder List, Garage List, I might think of more.
ABA list: 295 Latest: Swamp Sparrow
2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
2013: 220
Yard List: 85 Latest: Violet-green Swallow, Tricolored Blackbird
http://www.flickr.co...s/89595711@N08/
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 01:43 AM
In addition to my life list I keep a list for each of the last three years (the three years I've been an active birder) with first sighting dates, one for each county I've birded in, one for each of the three Audubon groups I regularly bird with and one non-Audubon (when I was not with a group), one for each of the X-mas counts I've participated in and two lists showing which life birds I got in which county and with which group. If you count each county list seperately and break down my "lifer' lists I've got over fourty lists. I've also started making pie charts to show percentages of lifers by group, county, and so forth. This is what happens when you don't have a job and get bored.
New Year's Resolutions:
Get my lifelist to 300 (currently 293)
Finally get Mountain Quail and Vesper Sparrow
Top my previous single year best (2011-253) I'm at 193 as of 5/12.
Latest Lifer(s):Harris's Sparrow, Oka Ponds, Campbell, CA, 1/1/13
Favorite Recent Bird(s):Yellow-breasted Chat, Knights Ferry Rec Area, Knights Ferry, CA, 5/20/13; Blue-winged Teal (Pair), Peregrine Falcon, Sanderling (3),Franklin's Gull (9), Modesto Wastewater Treatment Facility, Modesto, CA, 5/12/13, MacGillivray's Warber, Adair Rd., Modesto, CA, 5/5/13, Long-eared Owl, Mercy Hot Springs, Fresno County, CA, 4/29/13, Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, Panoche Shool, San Benito County, CA, 4/29/13,Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, McHenry Rec Area, Escalon, CA, 4/21/13, Snowy Plover, Modesto Water Treatment Plant, Modesto, CA, 4/14/13, Blue-winged Teal, Redhead, San Luis NWR, Merced County, CA, 3/11/13, Eurasian Wigeon, American Bittern, Santa Fe Grade Rd., Merced County,, CA, 3/9/13
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 01:02 PM
We keep the same lists as Desertthorn. Life, yard, and year lists. This is our first year doing a year list as I wanted to compare how we did from last year. We were new birders then and it was so neat when our 2012 year list surpassed where our life list ended in 2011.
I do make note on our yard list who comes to the feeders and baths, but have been contemplating just making a list for that. No county lists, but there are times when I have seen a "need" for it.
No bucket or wish list. I think that would make things too stressful for us to always keep in mind those birds we have not yet seen.
I do make note on our yard list who comes to the feeders and baths, but have been contemplating just making a list for that. No county lists, but there are times when I have seen a "need" for it.
No bucket or wish list. I think that would make things too stressful for us to always keep in mind those birds we have not yet seen.
Life list (non ABA)- 204 Latest: Scarlet Tanager
Coolest: Audubon's Warbler
2013 Year list- 165
Yard list- 108 Latest: Scarlet Tanager
Coolest: Lesser Yellowlegs (This bird was terribly lost during our May snow, we are near no shore for this shorebird)
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Posted 06 June 2012 - 02:51 PM
i never kept a bird list till after i retired and became a backyard bird watcher. but i was born in an old farmhouse out in the sticks and we always had lots of domestic birds and pet birds and lots of native song birds and raptors and doves ect. i lived in a dozen different states and several different countrys and visited Canada and Mexico. Once in awhile i do look through books or guides and count what birds i think i have seen in 75 years of outdoors and farming and fishing and hunting. so i guess that is my maybe list.? but i do have a backyard list of photos from the kitchen window.
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 03:54 PM
You know a list I've been contemplating lately... totally in fun...
I'd like to keep a list of the birds I've ID'ed for others but yet never saw the bird myself.
My latest would be the Lark Sparrow.
I'd like to keep a list of the birds I've ID'ed for others but yet never saw the bird myself.
My latest would be the Lark Sparrow.
Life list (non ABA)- 204 Latest: Scarlet Tanager
Coolest: Audubon's Warbler
2013 Year list- 165
Yard list- 108 Latest: Scarlet Tanager
Coolest: Lesser Yellowlegs (This bird was terribly lost during our May snow, we are near no shore for this shorebird)
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 10:05 PM
That's an interesting idea, I like it!You know a list I've been contemplating lately... totally in fun...
I'd like to keep a list of the birds I've ID'ed for others but yet never saw the bird myself.
My latest would be the Lark Sparrow.
New Year's Resolutions:
Get my lifelist to 300 (currently 293)
Finally get Mountain Quail and Vesper Sparrow
Top my previous single year best (2011-253) I'm at 193 as of 5/12.
Latest Lifer(s):Harris's Sparrow, Oka Ponds, Campbell, CA, 1/1/13
Favorite Recent Bird(s):Yellow-breasted Chat, Knights Ferry Rec Area, Knights Ferry, CA, 5/20/13; Blue-winged Teal (Pair), Peregrine Falcon, Sanderling (3),Franklin's Gull (9), Modesto Wastewater Treatment Facility, Modesto, CA, 5/12/13, MacGillivray's Warber, Adair Rd., Modesto, CA, 5/5/13, Long-eared Owl, Mercy Hot Springs, Fresno County, CA, 4/29/13, Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, Panoche Shool, San Benito County, CA, 4/29/13,Lawrwnce's Goldfinch, McHenry Rec Area, Escalon, CA, 4/21/13, Snowy Plover, Modesto Water Treatment Plant, Modesto, CA, 4/14/13, Blue-winged Teal, Redhead, San Luis NWR, Merced County, CA, 3/11/13, Eurasian Wigeon, American Bittern, Santa Fe Grade Rd., Merced County,, CA, 3/9/13
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 10:13 PM
I really only keep a life list, but ebird automatically keeps state, county and country lists, by year and month. So I'm pretty much covered.
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Posted 24 August 2012 - 04:06 AM
i never kept a bird list till after i retired and became a backyard bird watcher. but i was born in an old farmhouse out in the sticks and we always had lots of domestic birds and pet birds and lots of native song birds and raptors and doves ect. i lived in a dozen different states and several different countrys and visited Canada and Mexico. Once in awhile i do look through books or guides and count what birds i think i have seen in 75 years of outdoors and farming and fishing and hunting. so i guess that is my maybe list.? but i do have a backyard list of photos from the kitchen window.
Why underline your post?? Just curious
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Posted 24 August 2012 - 06:50 AM
Only one list for me. Still haven't counted them all yet. Definitely more than a dozen. 
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Posted 24 August 2012 - 02:38 PM
don't know why its underlined just hit a wrong button i suppose?
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