Life List ID Helper: a free Claude skill

A small skill that asks the right questions about a bird you saw or heard, gives the most likely species with an honest confidence level, and says whether it’s safe to count.

• Place and season checked first
• Look-alikes and how to tell them apart
• The one thing to check next time

Made by Life List, part of What If Labs.

Install it

1. Download life-list-id-helper.zip (don’t unzip it).
2. In Claude on the web or desktop, open Customize, then Skills, click +, choose Upload a skill and pick the ZIP.
3. Make sure code execution is on in Settings, Capabilities. It works on any Claude plan, including the free one.
4. Ask Claude something in plain words. It picks the skill up on its own.

Using Claude Code instead? Copy this folder into ~/.claude/skills/.

Try a free tool first

No Claude needed: the Best Time to Go Birding Today: Sunrise Planner runs in your browser and shows its working.

Want the whole thing?

The Life List Birding Companion is $15, one time, with a 14-day refund. Identify, list, plan and learn.

• Honest ID with confidence levels
• Life, year and trip lists
• eBird-friendly CSV
• Outing and trip plans
• Migration timing
• Hard-group guides
• Ethics, feeders and photography
• Updates for a year

License

MIT. Use it, change it, share it. Please keep the credit to Life List.