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Bird Watching 101

Bird Watching 101. A beginners guide. How to Identify a bird Using Peterson’s Field Guide. Birds are grouped into eight main visual categories Swimmers: Ducks and d ucklike birds Aerialists: Gulls and gull-like birds. Long-legged Waders: Plovers, sandpipers, etc.

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Bird Watching 101

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  1. Bird Watching 101 A beginners guide

  2. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • Birds are grouped into eight main visual categories • Swimmers: Ducks and ducklike birds • Aerialists: Gulls and gull-like birds. • Long-legged Waders: Plovers, sandpipers, etc. • Fowl-like Birds: Grouse, quail, etc. • Birds of Prey: Hawks, eagles, owls. • Nonpasserine Land Birds • Passerine (Perching) Birds • Not based on any phylogenetic or systematic order.

  3. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • What is the birds size? • Yardstick species- smaller than a house sparrow, a robin, a pigeon etc.

  4. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • What’s is its shape? • Is it plump like a starling, or slender like a cuckoo?

  5. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide Thrushes, Flycatchers, Hawks, Owls, and shore birds Vireos, Shrikes, Crows and Warblers

  6. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • What shape are its wings? • Are they rounded like those of a quail orsharply pointed like those of a barn swallow?

  7. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • What shape is its bill? • Is it small and fie like a warbler, stout and short like a seed cracking sparrow’s dagger shaped like a tern’s, or hook-tipped like that of a bird of prey.

  8. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • What shape is its tail? • Is it deeply forked like a Barn Swallow’s, square-tipped like a Cliff Swallow’s, notched like a Tree Swallow’s, rounded like a jay’s, or pointed like a Mourning Dove’s

  9. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • How does it behave? • Does it cock its tail like a wren or hold it down like a flycatcher? Does it wag, flip or dip its tail? Etc.

  10. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • Does it climb trees? • If so, how does it climb? Does it spiral, in jerks using its tail as a brace, or head first?

  11. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • How does it fly? • Does it swoop up and down? Fly fast and straight? Or hover? Does it glide or soar?

  12. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • Does it swim? • Does it sit low or high in the water? Does it dive or bob for food?

  13. How to Identify a birdUsing Peterson’s Field Guide • Does it wade? • Does it have long legs, or short legs? Does it probe the mud or pick at things?

  14. Field Markings

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  19. Can you spot the difference? Western Gull California Gull Hint: Look at the feet.

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