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The high-resolution representation of a lifer is to a birder what a caller grade certificate is to an overqualified but inactive compulsive grade hoarder. For the elucidation of the chirp-challenged constituency, a lifer is simply a vertebrate taxon a birder has clapped eyes connected for the archetypal time; and the rarer the feathers, the much treasured the photograph of the vertebrate that has been clicked. Birder Sagarika Gupta is disconsolate with the disappointment of a studious idiosyncratic who has completed a uncommon and brow-bending grade successfully, but is denied a certificate acknowledging it for immoderate unusual reason.
On April 21, during a greeting locomotion astatine the Adyar Poonga, a Slaty-legged crake had crossed Sagarika’s path, and if she had ever bitterly regretted not having a camera with a telephoto lens astatine hand, this was the time.
