A tick is the first sighting of a species in a defined region.
A lifer is the first sighting of a legitimate representative of a
species.
A tick depends on where you see a species. A lifer is a lifer is a
lifer. It doesn't matter where you see it.
Regards, Laurie.
On 19/11/2013, at 7:32 PM, Tom Tarrant wrote:
I like Denis Lepage's Avibase
<http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?region=aus&list=ioc>tilt,
you can
use Ebird, Clements, IOC, Howard & Moore, Sibley & Monroe etc and
get 1632,
2037, 1679, 1587, 1636 'lifers'!
Plenty of scope.....
Tom
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Tony Palliser
<> wrote:
Out of curiosity I just looked up what some of the birding
taxonomies are
calling "Australasia". What a mess! - thought some of you with
interests
in birding the Australasia region might be interested. So this
begs the
question for us birders what constitutes Australasia exactly?
I think I have this right?
HBW
Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Fiji, Bismarcks, Cook Islands,
Micronesia, Easter Island, Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall
Islands,
Nauru & New Caledonia
(Excludes Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Moluccas)
CLEMENTS & SURFBIRDS
Australia, New Guinea & Bismarcks, Moluccas Islands)
(Excludes Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Christmas Island & Cocos
(Keeling)
Islands, Bougainville, & Solomon Islands)
IOC
Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Bismarcks, Solomon Islands,
Sulawesi,
Moluccas, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Norfolk Island,
(Excludes Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
WIKIPEDIA (Under the heading Ecological Geography)
Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Lombok, Timor,
Sulawesi
(Wallacea) and East Melanesian Islands and I think Christmas Island
and
Cocos (Keeling) Islands is included.
(Excludes Vanuatu, Fiji and Polynesia)
Cheers,
Tony
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