How Many Lists Do You Keep? (1 Viewer)

Nightjar61 · Dec 13, 2004

I consider myself a fairly obsessive lister, keeping a total of 19 lists. They include my Word/Life List, North America/ABA Area List, Holarctic Region List, Palearctic Region List, Oriental Region List, Neotropical Region List, Africa List, Asia List, Europe List, South America List, Caribbean List, Indiana List, Arizona List, California List, Colorado List, Florida List, Illinois List, Year List, and a Subspecies/"Escrow" List.

I only keep state lists for those states where I've lived or birded extensively, and plan on returning to someday.

So how many lists do you keep?

Dave

Jacamar · Dec 13, 2004

Wow, Dave! I guess you would have to keep so many lists if you bird in so many places. I keep just three lists; a life list, local patch list, and a house list.

Darren Oakley-Martin · Dec 13, 2004

UK Life List
UK Year List
UK Self-found Life List
UK Self-found Year List
Bedfordshire Life List
Bedfordshire Year List
Bedfordshire Self-found Life List
Bedfordshire Self-found Year List
Cambridgeshire Life List
Cambridgeshire Year List
Cambridgeshire Self-found Life List
Cambridgeshire Self-found Year List
Norfolk Life List
Sweden Life List
Patch 1 Life List
Patch 1 Year List
Patch 1 Self-found Life List
Patch 1 Self-found Year List
Patch 2 Life List
Patch 2 Year List
Patch 2 Self-found Life List
Patch 2 Self-found Year List
Birdforum Members Met List

23?! Me obsessive? nooooooooo!!

Inadvertantly, I've just made another! A List of my Lists!

Gill Osborne · Dec 13, 2004

ROFLMAO@Darren |:d|

WELL...I COULD attempt to beat Darren's 23 but modesty forbids LOL I only keep

1. Life List
2. Year List
3. Northumberland List
4. Garden List
5. Patch List
6. Walking to shops for morning paper List (not as dull as it may first seem as I have to go down a big hill, through a village, around a farmyard,down a road past pond and then along a winding country lane! There and back is about five miles and takes a good hour & half IF i don't take bins with me and just walk steadily!...otherwise three hours LOL)

Think that's it...what a boring birder I must be LOL

Oh, just thought of another one that I could start to keep...Birds Seen Whilst On Driving Lesson List!!! Though, on second thoughts,perhaps not...could be too distracting and a mite dangerous

GILL

Tero · Dec 13, 2004

At my level, one list pretty much covers all the info. But I am going to start a year list in 2005. I expect to see about 100 species, so I am not really going at it very seriously, the year list.

A diary might be more fun to keep, as my current one is pretty messy, loose leaf pages in a binder.

columbidae · Dec 13, 2004

I keep two lists of birds seen--a life list, and a year list. I don't get to travel enough to keep lists for different states/countries.

I also have a wish list of birds I hope to see. The wish list always has 14 birds on it, and every time I see a species on this list, it is replaced by another.

columbidae · Dec 13, 2004

Oh, almost forgot, I also have a list of birds seen out the window of the office where I work. This is very modest, only 13 species.

TorchBCT · Dec 13, 2004

Well lets see......
World Lifelist
Aba Lifelist
Aba Yearlist
Texas Lifelist
Texas Yearlist
Henderson County Lifelist
Henderson County Yearlist
Navarro County Lifelist
Navarro County Yearlist
Local Patch Lifelist
Local Patch Yearlist
Yard List
At Feeder List
From Car list

For a grand total of 14. Anything less is just uncivilized.

moose1991 · Dec 13, 2004

Don't keep a list, just memmories in me head.

helenol · Feb 11, 2005

moose1991 said:
Don't keep a list, just memmories in me head.

ah yes, you can never lose the memories. :t:

David Bryant · Feb 11, 2005

ER... Yes you CAN lose the memories! Or at least, they blur together after a while! Without my field notes and 'big logs', I'd never remember where I first saw which bird! But then I have got logs going back to 1958!
I keep the following:
Life List (UK only!)
Norfolk List
France List
Seen from boats list! (That's my fave!)

michaelboustead · Feb 11, 2005

A life list only.

Mike

Edward woodwood · Feb 12, 2005

one:

world life list

and that's in my head

Tim

David Bryant · Feb 12, 2005

Good old Tim!
Bet you can't remember EVERY bird! Erm......... Where did you see your first Black Tern, say?

roger hill · Feb 12, 2005

British list.
year list.
county list.
4 local patch lists.
month list.
birds found on my own.
back garden list.
1st of Jan list

a grand total of 11, any more would be excessive!

jackied · Feb 16, 2005

Life list
UK year list
UK Mammals
UK Common Insects
UK Butterflies
UK Moths
UK Reptiles
shopping list

Nightranger · Feb 16, 2005

I have a Life List subdivided into UK and the three counties I have lived in (Lancashire, Gwynedd and Bedfordshire) and a year list. The subdivisions on my life list are somewhat arbitrary because I was born in Bury, Lancashire and it has now become Bury, Greater Manchester and the counties of North Wales have been revised yet again.

Ian

Darren Oakley-Martin · Feb 16, 2005

Lists can't beat good field notes. Reading a list is like looking at a table of contents.

Richard W · Feb 16, 2005

Life list (UK)
Year list
Work list

Jay23 · Mar 11, 2005

What about a target list? I have a list of all the not-so-rare stuff that I desperately want to see but somehow continues to elude me such as Brambling, Hawfinch, Merlin............. Hopefully this list will continue to shorten - or will I be tempted to add more and more uncommon species?

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