Articles to help the beginning bird watcher get started bird watching.
- An Introduction to Bird Watching
According to a recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife survey, 76 million Americans currently enjoy the sport of watching birds. It’s easy to understand why. Birds are colorful, interesting to watch or listen to and relatively easy to attract to our backyard…
- Birdwatching Basics: An Introduction For Beginning Bird Watchers
No one knows the sights and sounds of nature quite like a bird watcher. By taking a half-second look at a small darting assemblage of brown, yellow, and white feathers and adding a call note that sounds something like "chip," a "birder" can tell you, not only was that one of 42 different types of warblers, but it specifically was a yellow-rumped warbler…
- Birdwatching Basics: Identifying Birds
By now you're familiar with the organization of field guides and with some of the different families of birds. You have binoculars and can spot an object with your naked eye and then look at it through the binoculars without having to search for ten minutes…
- Birdwatching Tips for Beginners
Choosing Binoculars, Field Guides and Bird Identification.
- About Birding - Birding Basics
Want to turn your next walk in the woods into an adventure? Bird-watching is the perfect sport for people who enjoy the outdoors. And you don’t need lots of special equipment or extensive training to have success the first time out. Just follow these simple eNature tips, and you’ll be identifying birds in no time.
- More Bird Watching Basics
Welcome to the world of bird watching. It's very simple, cheap and easy to start. All you really need to begin birding are three things…
- Introduction to Bird Watching
Birding definitely satisfies our sporting instinct: Listing, or as the English call it, “ticking,” is sort of like hunting, but the quarry, a new bird for the list, does not go into the pot. It is quite a challenge to identify all the birds you see for there are many species to contend with…
- Birdwatching
Birding or birdwatching is a hobby concerned with the observation and amateur study of bird s. The term "birding" is of American origin; "birdwatching" is the commonly used word in Great Britain and Ireland and by non-birders in the United States. Since visual observation is routinely complemented with auditory observation, the term "birding" is perhaps more accurate, and appears to be growing in usage…
- birding.com Beginning Birding - Ten Tips for New Bird Watchers
If you like watching birds in your backyard or you want to travel the world to see all 10,000 bird species, use these ten tips to get started! You might also want to visit WildBirds.com, a great site for newer birders!
- Getting Started in Bird Watching
LYSLE BRINKER of Cumberland, Maine, has been an avid naturalist and birder for more than 30 years. He has been a volunteer and trip leader for the Maine Audubon Society since 1990...
- Bird Watching -- Getting Started
There are as many reasons for people to become interested in bird watching as there are different kinds of birds. Often the bird bug bites as a result of observing the birds attracted to a back yard feeder and the desire to be able to identify the different kinds of birds that show up…
- Get Started Bird Watching
How would you like to become involved in an enjoyable and challenging outdoor pastime? One that is relatively inexpensive and can be done just about anywhere at anytime. If all this sounds good to you, then welcome to the hobby of bird watching, or “birding” as it is sometimes called…
- Bird Watching
Bird watching and Birding mean the same thing, the activity of observing wild birds. It is something that you can do in your own back yard, local park, or anywhere you travel. People of all ages watch birds. It is an activity you can keep doing all your life, in any part of the world. Birding is a quest. You can set out to see birds but the prize you come home with can only be described as happiness. Learning to bird is like getting a lifetime ticket to the theatre of nature…
- Watching Birds (Adobe Acrobat PDF Link)
Now here’s a challenge – where would you go to find dozens of bird species, including some of the most colourful or strange birds around? A rainforest? The African bush? Your back garden?
- Birdwatching - Getting Started
Birding as is it known by the enlightened enthusiast has gone from Nerdsville to Coolsville over the years. Here's a brief explanation of how someone can, in time, under the right circumstances, in the proper geographical setting and while bored walking a dog, can fall into our new national pastime.
- Bird Watching and the John Muir Award
Bird watching starts when you least expect it. If you are reading this then you probably already look at birds and wonder about them. This might be the starlings in the park, the brown ones visiting your neighbours bird table, or the geese you saw on holiday. This, in a sense, is bird watching. The next step is to get a little bit more organised.
- The ABC's of Bird Watching & Feeding
Bird watching and backyard bird feeding have become one of the most popular hobbies in America. Bird watching offers something for almost anyone who has an appreciation of nature. It can be a casual interest or it can become a sport for fanatics. It can be done in your own backyard and nearby parks or around the world. It can be as simple as watching the feeder from your back porch or as challenging as climbing a 10,000 ft. mountain to see a new species…
- Bird Watching
Magnificent virgin forests and ecological diversity are just some of the charms that attract visitors to Chiang Mai. Every year thousands of tourists from all parts of the world flock to Chiang Mai to admire the natural beauty to be found in the north. One activity which has gained increasing popularity over the past few years, especially among genuine nature lovers, is bird watching…
- Western Bird Watching
Bird watching or ‘Birding" as it is called by feathery aficionados has been listed as the fastest growing outdoor activity by many sources including Canadian outdoor leisure surveys. It is an outdoor pursuit that is shared by young and old…
- Beginner bird watching tips
Put on your long sleeved shirt, and maybe a jacket or coat if its cold outside, a pair of long-legged slacks, tennis shoes or boots, a hat to keep the sun out of your eyes, your binoculars, a pad and pen, and a good bird guide and head outside to look for, find, and watch birds…
Bird Watching with Children
- Bird Watching With Children -- An Introduction
One of my earliest memories is of walking through the forest with my grandmother. Together we identified every tree and flower, and named and admired every bird that sang. As I grew older, we made a game out of our discoveries…
- Birding with Children
It's strange that many American children know the animals of Africa, but not the birds of their own land. Introduce your kids to the American robin, and they'll have a friend to enjoy forever...
- A Children's Guide to Birdwatching
There are many different kinds of birds. They can be told apart by the shapes of their bodies, the color of their feathers and the places where they live. Let's take a look at each one of these and how to use a field guide...
Attracing Birds to Your Yard
- Attracting Birds
Articles for getting started in attracting birds to your yard.
- How to Have a Backyard That Attracts Birds
No matter where you live, you can attract birds to your backyard and even to an apartment balcony.
Bird Watching Databses
- Avibase - The World Bird Database
Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing nearly 1 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more
- BirdForum Birds Database
10,000 birds in the database.
- British Bird Database
This relational database brings together 174 attributes concerning the 342 British Bird species listed in the Great Britain and Ireland Breeding and Winter Atlases and the Biodiversity Action Plans.
- Borders Bird Database
Bird records, short species, borders list, observers, grid refs, british list, lock list. Excel spreadsheets.
- Kangaroo Island Bird Database
Kangaroo Island Bird Database
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