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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zheljko" data-source="post: 3259020" data-attributes="member: 9553">I read about a young girl who ticked several thousand species while travelling around the world. I think that is the especially bad case. She probably would not be able to recognize the same birds if a footage of her standing and looking at the bird was shown to her afterwards.-Do you know what this was? -Hmm... red-throated blue-billed shrike-babbler? -no....On the other hand it is silly not to count your local birds that are the only species in their genus for several countries around and have distinctive song. Nightingale, Scops Owl, Cuckoo. Once you are sure that no Starling scratching noise is coming from the same spot in the bushes it can be nothing else. Nightingales are *rarely* seen but they are heard-ticked easily wherever you go.</blockquote>