life list

noun — 2 senses

life list

noun
1

Biology, Birdwatching, Natural sciences, Ornithology A cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.

  • I added twenty species for the year, fourteen of which I couldn't hope to see anywhere else but Mike forked out a lot of money to come a long way with not a single addition to his life list to show for it.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 112:
2

A wishlist of things to accomplish during one's lifetime.

Related terms
lifer, life bird

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