Trystan
Well-known member
Curious to see what peoples thoughts are on this, or if there is a standard practice.
My world list has always been and will always be most important to me, but to keep things interesting, I also keep country lists, and more recently put together my Yorkshire list. (As seen in my signature)
As I am travelling increasing distances to see new birds in the UK, I thought it would be interesting to keep a few other county lists. Now I know for Yorkshire that people tend to use the pre 1974-ish administrative borders, or perhaps even the ancient county borders which I think are the same thing as far as Yorkshire is concerned.
However, if I apply this principle consistently, it would mean that Lancashire would include Greater manchester, Merseyside and parts of Cumbria, while Cumbria would be split down into Cumberland and Westmorland and I've certainly never heard of people keeping lists for these places.
I'm sure there are similar examples for many other counties, so my question is, what do other people do?
Thanks
My world list has always been and will always be most important to me, but to keep things interesting, I also keep country lists, and more recently put together my Yorkshire list. (As seen in my signature)
As I am travelling increasing distances to see new birds in the UK, I thought it would be interesting to keep a few other county lists. Now I know for Yorkshire that people tend to use the pre 1974-ish administrative borders, or perhaps even the ancient county borders which I think are the same thing as far as Yorkshire is concerned.
However, if I apply this principle consistently, it would mean that Lancashire would include Greater manchester, Merseyside and parts of Cumbria, while Cumbria would be split down into Cumberland and Westmorland and I've certainly never heard of people keeping lists for these places.
I'm sure there are similar examples for many other counties, so my question is, what do other people do?
Thanks