[chris butterworth]

Originally Posted by AlexC

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Also... starting to study up with my Collins Guide for my 3 week trip in May to Bosnia/Herzegovina and Slovenia... should get some good lifers there.

Collins also do a companion work covering European Butterflies. The Balkans, particularly Bosnia, are also a "hotspot" for obscure, single river species of fish.

Chris

[AlexC]

UPDATES/STATUS:

Class Aves:
-Added Fork-tailed Flycatcher, got the rarity in Stamford, CT over Thanksgiving break!

Kingdom Fungi:
-Added Black Knot plant pathogen fungi which was on a Cherry tree I saw back in Westport, CT on the Christmas Bird Count of 2009.

Kingdom Plantae:
-TOTALLY reorganized CLADE STRUCTURE based off of the APG III System released in 2009. I'd really like to hear some feedback on what you guys think of my organization here - I tried every which way how to denote clades within clades, but all I ended up with was a scatterbrained type layout. Still a work in progress...
-Added Black Cherry, on which the Black Knot fungus was found (Westport CBC 2009).
-Added Milkweed sp. (Westport CBC 2009)

[ovenbird43]

What a fun idea... I may have to follow suit. Years ago I started to keep a fish life list, unfortunately I didn't keep up with it. I've been striving over the past few years to become a more well-rounded naturalist, not just a birder/ornithologist, luckily I've had opportunities to take and teach several plant classes and most recently taught mycology. This seems like a great way to keep one's eyes open to the rest of nature.

[Matt Prince]

Thats a very noble attempt to formally classify your sightings Alex, makes my informal groupings look very random!

I'd like to adopt something similar, but it all gets complicated - especially with something as innocuous as lichen