Mysticete
Well-known member
I have been thinking the last few weeks about one of my long term goals, which is to see all the families and subfamilies of birds in the world. This is in addition to my other long-term goal of seeing 700 species within the ABA area.
I am pretty far off I figure from every succeeding at my first goal, although it is doable as a "before I die" sort of thing, as I have seen 63% of the bird families following my own classification. I have 630 ABA birds, so I think I will probably hit that goal before 50. There are still some "low-hanging fruit" places where I can get new birds, without depending on vagrants.
While considering all of that, I also wondered what goals some of the other members here might have. Do you want to see a certain number of birds in a patch/county/country? See a particular set of species or visit certain places? Photograph certain things? Working on some total world list goal? Acquire some unique experience?
I think most of us have some sort of wish or goal we work towards, big or small, even if its perhaps unlikely to actually happen. So curious to hear what folks hear have as goals.
I am pretty far off I figure from every succeeding at my first goal, although it is doable as a "before I die" sort of thing, as I have seen 63% of the bird families following my own classification. I have 630 ABA birds, so I think I will probably hit that goal before 50. There are still some "low-hanging fruit" places where I can get new birds, without depending on vagrants.
While considering all of that, I also wondered what goals some of the other members here might have. Do you want to see a certain number of birds in a patch/county/country? See a particular set of species or visit certain places? Photograph certain things? Working on some total world list goal? Acquire some unique experience?
I think most of us have some sort of wish or goal we work towards, big or small, even if its perhaps unlikely to actually happen. So curious to hear what folks hear have as goals.