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 > 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 > <tonyp@bigpond.net.au> 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 >> >> >> >> =============================== >> >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, >> send the message: >> unsubscribe >> (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) >> to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au >> >> http://birding-aus.org >> =============================== >> > > > > — > ******************************** > Tom Tarrant > Kobble Creek, Qld > > http://www.aviceda.org > ******************************** > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================