Converse of object

• include: Not bad - 10 species of birds, including 6 lifers in a hotel garden in the heart of Tokyo.

• get: I've done most Med countries so getting many lifers was looking bleak.

• see: I make no apologies for stating that the main priority for me on these trips is to see lifers.

• have: In 3 hours I had nearly 50 lifers, Baba finding birds very efficiently.

• produce: The trails produced many lifers, especially when we watched an ant swarm for more than one hour.

• add: Continuing or way along the network of tracks between lakes and pools we continued to add both lifers and new trip birds.

Adjective modifier

• mandatory: The parole board decides on further applications and all mandatory lifers who are released are on a life license and subject to recall.

• first: First lifer of the trip, from the aircraft steps, was Red-winged Starling perched on the terminal roof.

• few: We spent the whole morning on the tracks in this superb forest and noted many birds and of course a few lifers.

• more: One more lifer along the road: Abdim's Stork.

• only: Star bird of the holiday, and my only lifer was also seen here, ie Barbary Falcon.

• new: Despite that I saw 7 new lifers over here.

Modifies a noun

• population: The lifer population was three times more than the country with the next highest figure, Turkey, which had 1,746 lifers.

• panel: The team also provides representation at adjudication hearings and lifer panels.

• prisoner: For the first time, workshops will also be run for lifer prisoners and their partners to look at coping with long-term separation.

• number: A Desert Cisticola perched up long enough for us to identify it, lifer number 14.

Preposition: in

• shape: It was a totally amazing and unexpected lifer in the shape of a Black Wheatear.

• form: From the Headland I quickly picked up lifers in the form of Pigeon Guillemot and Black Oystercatcher.

Preposition: of

• trip: First lifer of the trip, from the aircraft steps, was Red-winged Starling perched on the terminal roof.

Preposition: for

• trip: Jonas lured out a Wing-banded Wren along the road, my last lifer for the trip.