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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexjh1" data-source="post: 3628607" data-attributes="member: 85555">I would think the idea would be that birding as a "challenge hobby", failure to see a bird is an implicit possible outcome of looking for or going to see a certain bird.  If you could count dead ones, it kind of removes that possibility which then makes it kind of unsporting to do so.  Obviously finding a dead bird still can have interesting scientific value, but from the idea of "collecting" sightings as a hobby, it's a bit awkward.Honestly I would think this would be even more of an issue with terrestrial animals - the fact that roadkill is predominantly mammals and that mammals are predominantly harder to see than birds means that people are more likely to encounter them dead than alive in many species.  Not in terms of mammal, but I know I've seen at least one type of snake dead as roadkill that I haven't seen alive.</blockquote>