Tweeters -

Deb Beutler <dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu> wrote:

>The result was 98 species of birds including ten lifers and some great
>scenery. My 400th ABA-area lifer was a Hutton's Vireo at Willapa
>Bay National Wildlife Refuge singing from a pine tree. The other lifers
>were: Red-throated Loon, Black-legged Kittiwake (north jetty of
>Columbia River), Brant, Harlequin Duck, Ruddy Turnstone (Ediz Hook
>with a bunch of Black Turnstones), Black Turnstone, Surfbird,
>Rhinocerus Auklet (Port Townsend), and Marbled Murrelet.

I am a novice, so my question would be - What is a lifer?

Thanks Tweets!


Alison Rossetti
Milwaukee, WI
rossetta at milwaukee.tec.wi.us