Members of the Antibirder Society seek to see as few bird species as possible over the course of their lives, while also agreeing to faithfully record any sighting they do have. As part of their charter, they insist on extensive research and study of all types of birds, even the Olive-Sided Flycatcher and Brown Creeper, so as to accurately identify the birds they do unfortunately happen to see, with the result that any new bird species could be marked as a point against.

The Executive Director of the Antibirders (seven points against) has managed, as his greatest feat, to never have seen an American Crow, though he has spent years poring over its details: the flat wings, the fanned tail, the common call cawww. He had several near misses in his early thirties, though all, thankfully, were in fact merely the Northwestern Crow, a smaller and more coastal crow, a crow he has been seeing since he was a child, one of the seven points against, and nearly indistinguishable from the American Crow to almost all ornithologists, though not, thankfully, to him, having ascertained that the ones he saw really were quite a bit smaller and quite a bit more coastal.