Hi All, hope all is well with you guys in these challenging times!
Ukraine birding community is working on creating a single list/database of all birders in the country and their respective lifelist totals. Obviously we encounter some questions and in this respect I would be grateful for your comments/thoughts on the following:
- do you count only SEEN birds for your lifelists or do you include HEARD species as well? Is there some internationally established "code of ethics" for this matter?
- does the number of photographed species play any role in your lifelists, or do you only count seen birds? Or seen and photographed separately?
- and, lastly, do you guys have some centralized birder's list/database in your home countries/regions? If yes, could you comment briefly on how that is organized?
Thanks so much beforehand for your helpful insights,
Alex
Ukraine birding community is working on creating a single list/database of all birders in the country and their respective lifelist totals. Obviously we encounter some questions and in this respect I would be grateful for your comments/thoughts on the following:
- do you count only SEEN birds for your lifelists or do you include HEARD species as well? Is there some internationally established "code of ethics" for this matter?
- does the number of photographed species play any role in your lifelists, or do you only count seen birds? Or seen and photographed separately?
- and, lastly, do you guys have some centralized birder's list/database in your home countries/regions? If yes, could you comment briefly on how that is organized?
Thanks so much beforehand for your helpful insights,
Alex