Birding Life List

This is my personal birding life list with the official count above. My personal rule is I only count it if I can get a photo of the bird - if I just hear it, or if I get a quick glimpse but can't get a shot off before it's gone, then I don't count it.

• All semblance of pride or quality control has been thrown out the window. There's no rule that a photo has to be good to count here - the bird might be blurry, out of focus, partially/mostly obscured, or a million miles away and has been heavily cropped. All that matters is that there are enough pixels to allow for a confident identification. These photos go all the way back to when I only had a 7 MP Canon PowerShot point-and-shoot, so some of them are extremely poor quality.
• The photos here are not necessarily the date that I first saw a specific species, just the date of the best photo I've got of that species. I will continually swap in new photos if I get a better photograph in the future.
• Some species have multiple photos here such as both male and female photos where they are visually different, adult and juvenile photos, or different subspecies that look substantially different (like the dark-eyed junco). However, those multiple photos do not count towards the species counter above or the counts in the blue buttons below. Those numbers reflect the count of unique species only (so blue button count will not necessarily match the number of photos on the page).
• If I have misidentified something, please contact me and let me know! I hate being wrong.