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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexjh1" data-source="post: 3496705" data-attributes="member: 85555">I kind of take the opposite approach - if something is on any half-reputable list I count it for my own sake, but keep aware of what contentious things are on there for the occasions where direct 1-1 comparison might be needed.My Eastern and Western Cattle Egrets for instance may not fly (no pun intended) with a bunch of lists, but at best I have two species and at worst two subspecies, and as I don't bird competitively it ultimately doesn't particularly matter.The only real problem I've run into with this approach is when lists change their minds about species and revoke them back to subspecies, but then that's going to be an issue with going with a single list anyway.  Glad I never got around to counting Black-eared Kite for instance.</blockquote>