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Balcony Birding

a life list from one window

Learn the birds around the house โ€” calls before colors, seasons and visitors, a proper life list built from the balcony and morning walks, one confirmed species at a time.

A copy carries over only the public parts you see here โ€” the owners' private files never leave their own vaults.

๐Ÿšง Draft โ€” not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional โ€” someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.

Life list

Every confirmed species, one row each โ€” and confirmed is the whole game: "probably a sunbird" doesn't go on the list, it goes on the quest list below and becomes a hunt. Each entry was earned with a real ID, call or silhouette or colour, in that order of usefulness.

# Species First seen How identified Notes
001 call / silhouette / colour

The syllabus โ€” first ten locals (learn these cold, calls included)

These are the reference points for identifying everything rarer. Tick when you can name it by call alone.

  • House crow
  • Common myna
  • Rock pigeon
  • Red-vented bulbul
  • Purple sunbird
  • Black kite
  • Rose-ringed parakeet
  • Asian koel (learn the call first โ€” you'll hear it long before you see it)
  • White-cheeked / red-whiskered bulbul
  • Tailorbird

(Adjust to what's actually outside the window โ€” this is the local ten, not a national one.)

Quest list โ€” the unconfirmed

  • (the "probably" sightings โ€” a note, a rough description, the time of day; resolved sightings graduate to the list above)