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The essential companion to any birders field guide
Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of natures ways with so little effortif one knows what to look for. Birding for Beginners opens the world of birding to the novice in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding.
This updated edition includes a new chapter on birding online and features detailed chapters on equipment, identification techniques, birding by ear, where to view birds, field guides, optics, and other essentials to get the beginner quickly into the field to identify birds. Especially valuable are chapters on bird behaviors such as feeding, flight, courting and breeding, nesting, and migrationinforming the beginner not only about what kind of bird is on the other end of the binoculars, but what it is up to as well.
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Sheila Buff is a freelance writer specializing in both medicine and the outdoors. The author of Insiders Guide to the Hudson River Valley and several books about birding, she lives in Milan in northern Dutchess County, New York.
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The most important requirement for becoming a proficient birdwatcher is something you have already: enthusiasm for the natural world. All you need to do is take that enthusiasm, grab your binoculars, step outdoors, and start looking.
As you get started in birdwatching, you may come to the startling realization that you have always been surrounded by birds and never really knew it. The simplest way to find birds to watch is to look in your own backyard. In a typical urban or suburban yard (or park or other open area), you will routinely see several obvious and easily identified common species, including House (English) Sparrows, Rock Doves (pigeons), starlings, robins, Blue Jays, and perhaps a few more.
If you put up a birdfeeder or a birdbath, you will attract more and different birds to observe. But doesnt that mean that the birds were there all along? Yesyou simply werent looking for them. Now that you know theyre there, practice your birding techniques on them.
One really satisfying aspect of birdwatching is that the more you watch, the more you see. The more often and more carefully you look at the familiar birds in your backyard, the better you will get to know them and how they behave. You may learn even to recognize individual birds among several of the same species. You will also start to see additional species because you have learned to differentiate among similar birds. For example, the small, brownish birds that you previously lumped together as just sparrows will resolve themselves into distinct species. And when a slightly different sparrow-like bird turns up, you will realize that it is a new bird for you, and you will be able to pin down its identity. Most amazing of all, new birds will seem to occur more often because you have begun to look more carefully at all the birds you see.
The American Robin, with its orange-red breast and erect posture, is one of the most familiar of birds, often seen on suburban lawns. It is so familiar, in fact, that it is frequently used as a reference birdother birds are compared with it in terms of size or song. The typical robin stands about 10 inches tall.
The most common birds are also the most important to know really well because they are often the benchmarks for descriptions and comparisons. Birds are often described as being about the size of a sparrow, robin, crow, or other common bird, for example. The better you know the common birds, the better you will be able to identify related birds and the better you will understand the differences among birds. The same behavior patterns you see in backyard birds can be seen, with minor variations, in birds anywhere. After you learn to recognize aggressive behavior in a Tufted Titmouse at your feeder, for example, you will probably be able to recognize that behavior in other birds in different feeding situations.
Moving beyond your immediate neighborhood, where are the birds? Try looking in any open area with vegetation, especially one with water: fields, vacant lots, parks, wooded areas, stream-beds, and fields near airports. Even if you live in an urban area, theres bound to be some open space around you. Central Park, in the heart of densely urban Manhattan, is an oasis for birds. More than 250 species have been sighted there, while more than 300 species have been seen at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, quite literally in the shadow of Kennedy International Airport. Today, due to recovery efforts over the past few decades, Peregrine Falcons feed on complacent pigeons and nest successfully on skyscrapers, bridge towers, power plant smokestacks, and similar artificial cliffs in many urban locations, including the Brooklyn Bridge.
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