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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexjh1" data-source="post: 3523806" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I tend to keep my own "heard only" list for my own personal reference but not count it in my proper listing capacity.  There are a few birds which have distinctive calls which I've been happy to leave on there for a while certain in their identity (Savi's warbler and Woodlark for instance) but for me the real problem happens when I'm birding abroad and I hear something that I know has to be a new species, but being a much more visual person than sound based I can't actually memorise it unless I'd prepared for possible calls beforehand, I don't think I would get away with "some kind of owl in Kuala Lumpur" for instance.</p></blockquote><p></p>