The Life
List Kit
Wear it, hang it, log it — one kit
The starter set for a first life list: the heron plate tee to wear, the Eastern Backyard Index poster to hang and tick off, and the bird-band glyph cap for the field. Three pieces from the same hand-drawn guide — bought together, the kit discount comes off in cart and it ships free.
CLASS FIELD KIT · TEE · POSTER · CAP · SET NO. LF-KIT-001
$120 for the three · −$8.20 kit discount in cart → $111.80 · ships free in the US (over $95). Poster fixed at 18×24.
01 · Plate tee
02 · Index poster
03 · Glyph cap
One guide, three forms
Every piece is drawn from the same field guide — the flagship heron plate, the twelve-species index, and the band-glyph cap. Each has a full study of its own; here they travel together as the starter kit.
Set LF-KIT-001
Eastern Backyard Index
12 common visitors · 18×24 archival · a wall key and a life list to tick off
Bird-Band Glyph Cap
LF-FIELD-001 · the band-glyph mark · Stone / Khaki · one size, adjustableBuy them one at a time if you like — each has its own page. Take all three as the kit and the Life List Kit discount comes off in your bag, and the order ships free.
Three pieces, one kit price
No mystery maths. The kit is the three pieces at their own prices; an automatic Life List Kit discount takes 10% off the tee and the cap when all three are in the bag, and the order clears free US shipping.
$111.80 as a kit
Honest savings, plus a piece you'd pay shipping on anyway.
The discount is real and applied at the cart — you'll see the Life List Kit — 10% line before you pay. And because the kit is over $95, it ships free, so the saving is the $8.20 plus the shipping you'd otherwise pay on a single tee or cap.
$111.80 after the kit discount · free US shipping · 5% of net to the Cornell Lab.
How the discount works. The kit adds three separate items to your bag so each is printed and shipped on its own; the Life List Kit — 10% automatic discount then applies in the cart. Prefer to mix sizes or colours? Add the pieces individually — the same discount fires whenever the tee, the poster and the cap are all in the bag.
Designed, not generated.
Every plate in this kit is drawn by hand from primary references — not produced by an image model. The numbers are real, the names are current, and each plate is redlined against the sources before it ships.
Verified 2026-06-29
A real illustrator's hand.
Each bird is illustrated from museum specimens and field references — the proportions, the posture, the band glyphs. No diffusion artefacts, no six-toed feet, no invented species. The kind of plate a field guide would actually print.
The data is correct.
Lengths, wingspans and binomials are pulled from Cornell · Birds of the World · IUCN and checked in current taxonomy. The index's twelve species are the birds most likely to land at an eastern feeder — chosen so the list is actually finishable.
Printed when you order it.
The tee, poster and cap are made to order and shipped from the print partners — nothing sits in a warehouse fading. Each piece arrives new, on archival stock for the paper, on quality blanks for the wearables.
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 record these plates are built on. Buying the kit funds the data the kit is drawn from.
Built to be kept
A kit is only worth buying if each piece earns its place. Here is exactly what the three are made of — the blanks, the paper, the print.
made to order
Plate tee
- Print
- full plate · front & back
- Colours
- Bay · Ivory · Pepper
- Sizes
- S–3XL
- Make
- premium ringspun blank
Index poster
- Size
- 18 × 24 in
- Paper
- archival matte
- Inks
- pigment · fade-safe
- Fields
- checkbox · station · observer
Glyph cap
- Blank
- Yupoong 6245CM
- Colours
- Stone · Khaki
- Fit
- one size · adjustable
- Mark
- band-glyph · embroidered
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 record this whole guide is built on. The feeder is where most people meet their first bird; keeping it worth watching is the whole idea.
More from the field guide
Want it framed instead of worn? The Wall Set leads with the framed heron edition. Or read each piece's full study before you choose.
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