A couple of weeks ago I posted the first poll on the site titled “How Many Birds Are On Your Life List“. Being new birders we wanted to see what we were up against as far as number of birds seen.
The Envelope Please
Well, we have some results, though not as many as I would have hoped. But, this was the first, of what I hope will be many, polls/surveys on the site so it’s a good start.
There have been 8 responses so far and here is how it broke down:
- 0-50 birds- 25%
- 251-500- 25%
- 501-750- 50%
Wow, some serious birders read this blog! I guess I should be flattered, thanks for reading. Both Pam and I are in the 0-50 bird group and it’s a little hard to imagine having more than 500 birds on our life list. So, whoever you are that has 500+ birds on your life list, congratulations are in order! That’s a fantastic achievement and we hope to be there one day as well.
I will keep this poll open so as new readers find this blog (Spread The Word!) they can take the poll as well.
Stay Tuned For More
This was only the first of many polls that I have planned. There are so many things that I’d like to know about all you birders out there. I plan on doing another one here in a couple of days. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions for poll questions you’d like to see answered please let me know!
Mark, you and Pam are in an exciting place right now. When I started 10,000 Birds, i had fewer than 200 birds on my list, and even that many because I visited Belize the month before I started blogging. Now that I’m over 550 birds, I can look back and enjoy all of the amazing sightings the last five years have delivered. And there are still SO MANY
… to see!!! (Somehow I got cut off mid-sentence there.)
Hi Mike,
Thanks for reading and commenting!
Yeah, we are so new to this that just about everything we see at this point is a “lifer”. Even if we’ve seen the bird before we still need to learn its song, etc. It is hard to imagine having a life list of several hundred birds or more but I guess if we keep plugging away we’ll get there eventually
The main thing is that we enjoy it and it’s something both of us can do together.