How many lifers do you guys have and when did you start?
How many lifers do you guys have and when did you start?
I‘m relatively new to birding and don’t have a car (or a driving license) so my lifer count isn’t all that high yet.
I started almost exactly a year ago (around the end of June 2022) and am now at just under 110 lifers. Most of these were seen around my neighborhood or in nearby towns. There’s a few nice nature reserves that are somewhat easy to reach by train, bus and bicycle and I’m intending on going there a bit more frequently once I get my new bike!
How about you? Oh and I’m from Bielefeld, a city in North-Western Germany.
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I live in the Netherlands and see about 150 different species of birds every year. That sounds like a lot, but even fifteen years of birding adds up to only about 270 species total. Perhaps this is because I never go somewhere to see a particular bird, I just go to nature reserves because they are beautiful. I have a small list of birds I very much would like to see, but I don't go out of my way to find them.