1. Tips For Identifying Birds - Associated Content - Associatedcontent.com Bird watching is a fun and educational past time. However, identifying birds isn't always easy and can seem overwhelming to the beginner. Read on to discover helpful hints that http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/996894/tips_for_identifying_birds.html

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3. Identifying Birds | Birds | Knowledge Bin A quick guide to identifying birds. There are so many distinct avian species that identifying birds can be enormously confusing, and the watching of them very time consuming. http://www.knowledgebin.info/birds/birds/identifying_birds.html

Sponsored Links Knowledge Bin Home List Of Animals List Of Birds List Of Dogs ... List Of Wildlife Most Popular Pages: Monkey Facts How To Remove A Tick Lion Facts Japanese Fighting Fish ... Oakleaf Hydrangea Identifying Birds A Quick Guide To Identifying Birds There are so many distinct avian species that identifying birds can be enormously confusing, and the watching of them very time consuming. There are worse ways that one could choose to spend their time, however, and watching birds has become one of the most popular hobbies in the United States. We can begin the process of identifying birds that we see by breaking them into their subcategories. This will help you to at least have an idea of what to look for in the informational realm. If you know that a bird is from the perching category, for instance, then you will have an easier time tracking down it’s full name and description, as well as what he eats and whether or not he migrates. We can start with identifying birds in the water fowl family. This would include any type of wild game bird who uses the water for habitat, protection, and for a food source. Ducks, geese, swans, and loons fall into this category, along with countless other water dwellers. There are also ways of identifying birds of the ground dwelling type, as they rarely roost and hatch their broods on the forest or field floor. This group includes grouse, quail, and partridge. These birds can all fly, but they choose to use this gift only when absolutely necessary. Panicky situations, for instance, such as being flushed from a bush by a dog will cause ground dwelling fowl to take flight. This fearful jaunt is usually clumsy and can bring the bird to injury.

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Home About Ask the Exterminator a Question Videos ... Pest Control Products Birds Category RSS Feed Email this article Printer friendly page Identifying Birds Summary: Learning to identify birds can be great fun and a real challenge. For those who have watched with exasperation as experienced birders identified dozens of flitting shadows on the wing, now it's your turn to partake in the adventure. You have certainly seen pictures of people with eyes glued to binoculars searching treetops for an elusive bird. You, too, can join in one of America’s fastest growing hobbies; bird watching. Getting started is simple. Begin with a field guide such as Peterson's Guide to North American Birds or The National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America or All of the Birds of North America ; all good choices for a beginner. All of the Birds of North America has especially nice silhouettes of birds and careful discussions of such essentials as beak shape, feeding habits, habitat and other essentials. You need something to bring your birds up close and personal so you can select from an assortment of field glasses. Choices will be dictated by conditions. For example, you're visiting the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge to see shore birds. Many shore birds are still feeders that move very slowly. Once you sight them in your lens, they stay put. Use higher power binoculars here. A 10x power lens with a relatively narrow field of vision is fine. Spotting scopes can also be used for birding. High-powered optics are more expensive, have narrower fields of vision, are less mobile and heavier, but in an area easily reachable by car, with less traveled paths and faraway birds, this is a workable trade-off.

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Identifying Bird Groups by Silhouette Birds in the same general group often have the same body shape and proportions, although they may vary in size. Silhouette alone gives many clues to a bird's identity, allowing birders to assign a bird to the correct group or even the exact species. In the above illustration are 23 different birds. How many can you recognize just by their silhouettes? Look carefully - don't miss the ones hiding in the leafy tree! Pay attention to the following: body shape proportions of the head, legs, wings, and tail shape and length of the bill Need some more help? See below for silhouette descriptions to help you. Cardinal Medium-sized finch-like songbird with long tail Strongly conical, seed-eating bill Crested head Crow Large size Stout body, medium-length tail Heavy, strong bill Dabbling Duck Typical duck shape, with heavy body Short tail, held above water's surface Horizontally flattened bill Dove Plump body, with short legs and neck Small head Pointed wings Slight swelling at base of upper bill Finch Small to medium size Conical, seed-eating bill

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Wikia Skip to Content Skip to Wiki Navigation Skip to Site Navigation Wikia Navigation Start a wiki Entertainment Fall TV Auction Hunters ... Birds Wiki Birds Wiki Navigation Top Content Editor's pick Most visited Highest voted ... Recent blog posts Random Page Wiki Activity Watchlist Recent changes Talk Identifying birds Edit Read more: Tips How-to Edited by View full history Most of this information was imported from wikiHow Have you ever seen a bird at your feeder that you really like, but just can't seem to figure out what it is? You should learn how to identify a bird, and this article will explain how to. Steps Edit Categorize the bird. There are 8 different categories that they can go into. As soon as you see the bird you should try to put it into on of these categories. The 8 categories are: Ducks and duck-like birds Gulls and terns Long-legged waders Shorebirds and small waders Fowl-like birds Birds of prey Flycatchers Warblers Size matters. You should pay attention to how big or small the bird is. You can use size relativity to get a general idea. Size relativity refers to being bigger or smaller than a sparrow, robin, crow, or pigeon, per say. Study silhouettes.

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Sponsored Search Search: Worldwide Bird Watching Bird Watching Videos Birdwatching Hot Spots USA Birdwatching ... Top 25 Bird Websites Bird Identification This page covers identification of the parts of a bird body and tips to make identifying birds easier. For detailed information about some common US birds, see Top North American Bird Fact Sheets For photo reference indeces to help you identify a bird you saw, see Bird Photos For bird species information, see Bird Species and Ornithology Parts of a Bird Body Learning to identify birds is fun and frustrating. A field guide can help you attach a name to most of the birds you see. Field guides are books with pictures and descriptions of the birds. A field guide typically shows birds of just one country or even one region of a country. You will soon learn that many of the birds you see just can't be identified with 100% certainty. But with practice, you should at least be able to narrow your ID down to the correct family was it a Sparrow or a Thrush? You are about to discover that birders seem to have given a name to every inch on a bird's body. Do you know where to find a bird's wing bars, primaries, superciliary and malar stripe? These diagrams will help: Detailed Diagrams of the Parts of the Bird Body Head Body Wing Glossary Tips to make identifying birds easier: First ask "How big is the bird?" Is it as big as a sparrow, a robin, a pigeon, a chicken or an ostrich? Is the bird fat or skinny, long or short. Look at each part of the bird. Is its bill short or long, thick or thin, curved or straight? How about the tail? What shape is it? Is it forked? Are the bird's wings pointed or curved, long or short?

17. Bird Plumages - Types Of Bird Plumages - Identifying Birds By Plumage Birds have several different types of plumages and understanding the differences between bird plumages can halp birders identify species from season to season. http://birding.about.com/od/identifyingbirds/a/Bird-Plumages.htm

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