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life listing
May. 23rd, 2016 09:26 amIn college, I spent a week in Panama, where I had the birding adventure of a lifetime, running around from dawn to dusk with a gaggle of ornithology students and frantically writing down the names of everything in a little moleskine notebook.
At the time, however, I was not a super-scrupulous note-taker, so while all my bird notes since then have been entered into eBird, the little moleskine's been sitting untouched.
Since eBird automatically keeps count of your "life list"—the number of species you've seen total—my life list count on eBird has thus been super-inaccurate, because I saw an absurd number of species in Panama that eBird knew nothing about.
For the past four years or so, I've had the vague-yet-serious goal of having 1,000 species on my life list, and yesterday, I decided it was time to figure out my Real Actual Life List Number, so I dug up the moleskine and started copying notes from it onto eBird. Halfway through the process I came to an interesting realization: I actually don't care that much about the life list number anymore.
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At the time, however, I was not a super-scrupulous note-taker, so while all my bird notes since then have been entered into eBird, the little moleskine's been sitting untouched.
Since eBird automatically keeps count of your "life list"—the number of species you've seen total—my life list count on eBird has thus been super-inaccurate, because I saw an absurd number of species in Panama that eBird knew nothing about.
For the past four years or so, I've had the vague-yet-serious goal of having 1,000 species on my life list, and yesterday, I decided it was time to figure out my Real Actual Life List Number, so I dug up the moleskine and started copying notes from it onto eBird. Halfway through the process I came to an interesting realization: I actually don't care that much about the life list number anymore.
( Read more... )
