LIFE-LIST

A life-list is a fancy term for a list of birds. More specifically, it includes every single species of bird a birdwatcher has ever recorded seeing.
This one's mine.
I'm lucky enough to live in a city with a ton of parks, so I have seen most of these birds at-home in Alberta, Canada, though there are a few I have seen abroad. Some of these I have seen repeatedly and some I have only seen once or twice.
I have also included a short list at the end of non-bird animals I have seen while birdwatching, which isn't typical of life-lists. But this is my website and I do what I want.

Admittedly this list is not organized too well. I've sorted the birds into groups and sub-groups, some of which are generically taxonomic and some of which are more-or-less arbitrary. Hopefully they make enough sense, but if not you can always CTRL+F.
On that note, I do not follow any taxonomy but my own. I use old birdwatching guides from used bookstores (some date back to the 70s) and don't care to follow what rich kids with useless degrees have decided to arbitrartily lump or split or rename for no reason (hello, gray jay who is now Canada jay!) this year. I got better things to do with my time.

So far, I have seen

102

species of birds!

WATERFOWL AND WADING-BIRDS

SEABIRDS

SHOREBIRDS

WOODPECKERS AND NUTHATCHES

BIRDS-OF-PREY AND VULTURES

CORVIDS

BLACKBIRDS

SONGBIRDS, SPARROWS, AND THE REST

NON-BIRDS

Other animals I've seen while out birdwatching.