Take this test, please I would like to encourage everyone who visits this page on a regular basis to please vote in the poll as to the type of content you would prefer to see. This data may, in the near future, lead to a reorganization of the page. Upon the positive identification of a bird, a person will produce writing implements, seemingly from out of the air, and begin scribbling with all the intensity of a big-city deli counter person taking an order with a short stubby pencil on the back of a brown paper bag. In fact, the implements may be the same, depending upon birder and circumstance.
Birders keep several different lists.
A trip list is a list of all birds seen on any given field trip, and would look something like the sightings made by Seth Williamson below. Birders also keep life lists, which include all birds they have ever positively identified at any time. These can be quite extensive, and birders occasionally go to great lengths to add species to these lists. The most famous life list belongs to the recently deceased Phoebe Snetsinge . Snetsinger's 8,400 species is an estimated 85 percent of all known birds.