So a lifer will always be a tick but a tick not necessarily a lifer...
Ken
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On Behalf Of Laurie Knight
Sent: Tuesday, 19 November 2013 8:27 PM
To: birding-aus
Subject: The difference between a lifer and a tick
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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