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LARKFEN FIELD GUIDE · REGISTRYPLATE 05 · LF-LIFE-002
Not one bird but twelve — the species most likely to land at an eastern feeder, drawn as a single
registry you can tick off. It works as a wall key and a
life list: a checkbox per species, a station and observer line, and one box for the day you have logged all twelve.
CLASS REGISTRY PLATE · 12 SPECIES · 18 × 24 IN · BAND NO. LF-LIFE-002
LARKFEN FIELD GUIDE · LF-LIFE-002PLATE 05a · ON THE WALL
§ The poster, on the wall
A wall key and a life list
An archival 18×24 poster — twelve verified binomials in a hand-set grid, with a check-box waiting for your own date. Shown on the wall; hover (or drag) to read it under the loupe, and tap the inset to flip to the full grid.
Hover / drag either image to zoom · tap the inset to flip to the full grid
A beginner's first life list, sized for the wall: tick a species when you find it on your own patch,
and fill the last box the day you have logged all twelve.
THE LIFE LIST · A LARKFEN COLLECTION · THE LOCAL PATCH
LARKFEN FIELD GUIDE — The editionPLATE 05b · THE RECORD
§ The edition, the species, the sources · three-block lattice
Everything behind the registry
Twelve species chosen for one reason — they are the birds most likely to land at an eastern feeder. Names verified in current taxonomy and redlined before print.
3 blocks · A–C Verified 2026-06-14
AThe edition
The poster
Format
archival poster
Size
18 × 24 in
Species
12 common visitors
Fields
checkbox · station · observer
Region
eastern N. America
BWhy these twelve
The selection
Source
common feeder species
Per
Cornell · FeederWatch
Bias
resident & near-resident
Use
a beginner's first life list
Chosen to be findable — the point is to tick all twelve.
CObservation & provenance
The sources
Sources
Cornell AAB · FeederWatch
Lengths
from Cornell
Verified
2026-06-14
Redline
☑ accepted
NAMES VERIFIED · CURRENT TAXONOMY · REDLINED BEFORE PRINT
LARKFEN FIELD GUIDE — The RegistryPLATE 05c · 12 SPECIES
§ The twelve, accessioned — names verified, lengths from Cornell
Twelve common visitors
The life-list registry behind the poster, in current taxonomy. Check them off as you find them on your own patch.
12 species Archival 18×24
Nº
Common name
Binomial & family
Field length
☐
01
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis · Cardinalidae
21–23.5 cm
☐
02
Black-capped Chickadee
Poecile atricapillus · Paridae
12–15 cm
☐
03
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata · Corvidae
25–30 cm
☐
04
American Goldfinch
Spinus tristis · Fringillidae
11–13 cm
☐
05
Downy Woodpecker
Dryobates pubescens · Picidae
14–17 cm
☐
06
White-breasted Nuthatch
Sitta carolinensis · Sittidae
13–14 cm
☐
07
Tufted Titmouse
Baeolophus bicolor · Paridae
14–16 cm
☐
08
Carolina Wren
Thryothorus ludovicianus · Troglodytidae
12–14 cm
☐
09
Dark-eyed Junco
Junco hyemalis · Passerellidae
14–16 cm
☐
10
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macroura · Columbidae
23–34 cm
☐
11
American Robin
Turdus migratorius · Turdidae
20–28 cm
☐
12
Song Sparrow
Melospiza melodia · Passerellidae
12–17 cm
☐
⚑ Lengths are field ranges from Cornell All About Birds; names follow current taxonomy. Verified 2026-06-14 · Cornell · Project FeederWatch.
CHECK THEM OFF · ONE PATCH AT A TIME · ALL TWELVE
LARKFEN FIELD GUIDE — MensurationPLATE 05c·2 · THE DATA BEHIND THE PLATE
§ The data behind the plate — twelve birds, to scale
Twelve visitors, by size
The registry lengths drawn as shared-axis range bars, so the whole feeder cast reads at a glance — from the goldfinch (11 cm) to the mourning dove (34 cm). Bars are grouped by size class; the color is the class, never a CTA. Lengths from Cornell All About Birds, verified before print.
12 species length · cm shared axis
Body Mensuration · The Eastern Index · 12 VisitorsSHARED-AXIS RANGE · LF-VIZ-MEASURE
Bar = published length range; end-ticks mark the extremesAxis is shared across all twelve · sorted shortest → longest · IUCN Least Concern
LENGTHS · CORNELL ALL ABOUT BIRDS · VERIFIED 2026-06-14
LARKFEN FIELD GUIDE — ConservationPLATE 05d · 5% TO CORNELL LAB
5%
The patch is worth keeping.
5% of net sales goes to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology — the people behind eBird, Merlin and Project FeederWatch, the citizen-science records this registry is built on. The feeder is where most people meet their first bird; keeping it worth watching is the whole idea.
