You are correct, Karen. A Life Bird is a life bird, geography aside.
People start categorizing the geography of the sighting (local patch,
county, state, country, area (ABA-area, etc.) if they care to do so. If
use eBird, it will categorize for you if you care to look at the
breakdown. To Mark's
I’m a relatively new birder, but am I wrong in stating that the very first time
I see a bird of a particular species (assuming I properly identify it), that
that sighting counts as a “life bird” for me, no matter where the bird is
and/or where I am when I see it?
Having said that, I completel
Your life list is your life list and you can do whatever you want with it.
I saw a Yellow-faced Grassquit in Laredo that was not accepted by the TX
Bird Records Committee (no photo) but I know what I saw and it's on my life
list and my ABA-area list. It was seen on the US side. The ABA Listing
Gu
I edited your email below for relevance, but I’d clarify that you can count the
kingfisher (for example) on your life list, just not on your ABA area list.
Regards
-Greg Pasquariello
From: MARK CHAVEZ
Sent: Saturday, February 2, 2019 8:20 PM
To: COBIRDS
Subject: [cobirds] South Platte Reservoir
