life list

English

Alternative forms

• lifelist

Noun

life list (plural life lists)

1. (birdwatching) A cumulative list of all the bird species a birder has ever sighted and identified.

   Hypernym: checklist

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 112:

     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.

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

   Synonym: bucket list

See also

• lifer, life bird