Should birds that you only have audio recordings of, count for your personal life list? poll

Are you talking about iNaturalist’s life list, or a life list you’re keeping on your own?

Personal life list that you are keeping on your own. Just curious if some people consider hearing a new bird a lifer. I personally don’t, but I’m open for opinions.

Yes, we consider heard-only as counting in our life list. We do not promote one sense (seeing, hearing) over another for our personal records. We consider the activity to be birding or inatting (as opposed to bird watching specifically)

Due to lack of experience, patience, and equipment, I am not much of a birder. I do like birds very much, though. Overall, hearing a bird and having a recording is enough for me to put it on my personal life list, but for some species, I really want to see them and take a photo as well. So I do lik…

I absolutely count heard birds for my life list. (ABA 730+ / World 1630+) I have several owls, rail, and neo-tropical wrens which I have never seen (would love to!), but trying to see them would be disruptive to them and their habitat. Moreover, there are many birds which can best be separated fro…

Audio Recordings for Life List?

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spiphany September 11, 2024, 5:47am 5

This earlier thread on a similar topic may be relevant: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-are-your-personal-bird-list-rules/39003/

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