I’m going to start a new, hopefully regular, feature on Birds In Your Backyard, that would be a poll or survey that we all can participate in. I did some research on poll/survey plugins and found Survey Gizmo. It seems to have a lot of features and it looks like it will work well. Hopefully you find this fun.
Numbers Please
Let’s kick this thing off with something that every birdwatcher has, a life list. From what I gather so far, birders are a rather obsessive bunch (I mean that in a good way). We like to keep statistics and see where we compare with everyone else. The life list is a good way to measure ourselves against others. I’ll kick it off by “voting” my life list of 24 birds and Pam’s 14 birds. Those should be easy numbers for many of you to beat 
The survey will be open for a few days at least. I’ll do a follow up post summarizing the results. I’m interested to see how many birds all of you have on your lists.
Hmmm, do you want US only or total global numbers?
@bevson Go ahead and give me the grand total, from all over the world.
I came across this free site that enables all us birdy types to maintain lists.
Looks like a new site in testing, but looks like it’s got potential. http://www.chatterbirds.com
Thanks for reading and for the heads up on the site!
It does look promising. I need to spend some more time checking it out.
how many birds are you aloud to keep in bird averys in your home garden ;;