Tag: identification

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

January 3, 2023 by Donna No Comments

Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time! Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more...

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

October 4, 2016 by Donna 2 Comments

British birders are very serious about birding and their birds. This is a very good thing; it means they publish a lot of books...

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

January 5, 2016 by Donna 1 Comment

New Year’s resolutions from birding friends are starting to trickle in as I write this review. It is the last day of 2015, time...

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Great Egrets and the reliability of field marks

July 26, 2015 by Jochen 1 Comment

It’s bad. Very bad. Germany is currently experiencing its hottest June and July ever, and temperatures in the last few weeks have rarely been...

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Four Groups of Neotropical Birds that may Challenge your ID Skills

January 15, 2015 by Alfredo Begazo No Comments

No doubt that one of the fun parts of birding is being able to identify birds in the field. Getting to a point where...

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How to Tell a Lesser Black-backed Gull from a Great Black-backed Gull

January 12, 2015 by Corey 8 Comments

When you ask someone who is into gulls for help identifying a specific bird the conversation can get horribly dull amazingly quickly. Molt, windows,...

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I Want This Bird to be Something…

October 20, 2014 by Corey 12 Comments

Two weeks after finding a Say’s Phoebe at Edgemere Landfill in the company of my family I convinced them to return to Edgemere yesterday afternoon for...