Listers: The First Five Birds That You Documented?

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Listers: The First Five Birds That You Documented?

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1tropics
Aug 1, 2007, 8:28 pm

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2tropics
Edited: Aug 2, 2007, 1:37 pm

My time-worn "Birder's Life List & Diary" reveals the following "first five", begun in Oregon:

Black-capped chickadee
Sandhill crane
Brown creeper
American crow
Cattle egret (thanks to a brief interlude in Louisiana)

3clamairy
Edited: Aug 1, 2007, 8:44 pm

Chipping Sparrow
House Sparrow
Dark-Eyed Junco
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Cardinal

4DaynaRT
Aug 2, 2007, 9:09 pm

Canada Goose
American Robin
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Blue Jay

5frahealee
Edited: Feb 15, 2020, 2:11 pm

Killdeer
Barn Swallow
Grackle
English Sparrow
Swan

Up until I was a teenager, my efforts lengthened my dad's list, not my own. I worked on a farm picking rocks at 13/14 which is why the killdeer and barn swallow snuck on there first.