Why your life list total be different to what you expected.

When you import your records to Birda, our system will try to find a match between our taxonomy and every species you import. Sometimes there may be a mismatch which could mean that a species is not correctly imported. When this happens, the Birda import tool will show an error for the records that were not imported. If this happens you can try and find and fix possible issues in the file, or go back to the platform which provided the file to ask for their support. Sadly, Birda isn't able to provide support for importing files from other providers.

Birda uses the AviList taxonomy, the new global standard used by all major birding platforms. If this taxonomy differs from the taxonomy in your import file, then it could cause your life list total to differ from the import source.

Bird taxonomy is in a constant state of flux with changes being made on a semi-annual basis by AviList. If our taxonomy is slightly ahead or behind the source of an import you made, then this may also result in there being differences in your life list totals.