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  Many people who self-identify as "birders" compile a "life list". The life list is an organized log of all bird sightings made in one's lifetime. When life lists begin, they typically fill quickly with common species, as one might imagine, but soon adding entries becomes much more challenging. Trips are made to exotic places looking for trophy species. Some species that would seem accessible, prove to be elusive, haunting birders for years.
  
  The experience of the birder completing a life list has a distinct parallel with that of the wildlife soundscape recordist, phonographer, or field recordist. Locations or events which once served as a source of wonder sometimes give way to a wanderlust in hopes of uncovering rare or previously unheard acoustic phenomena (biophony, geophony, anthrophony, or otherwise).
  
  "Life List" is a recording whose presentation plays with the notion of this kinship between the recordist and the life-lister. It is a three hour continuous stereo recording of famed Adirondack birding location "Ferd's Bog", which offers residents of northeastern North America the rare opportunity to spot an American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus).
  
  The recording is intended to evoke the same sublime aesthetic experience from a listener as any "environmental" recording of a northeastern dawn chorus. But in this common event often captured portrayed in wildlife soundscape recordings, lurks the tantalizing possibility of uncovering the rare.
  
  I do not know whether or not the three-toed woodpecker is audible in the recording.
  
  The recording was made using unattended recording equipment deployed on the evening of May 15th and retrieved the morning of May 16th. The portion chosen for this work begins between 5 and 6 in the morning. ... more
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