Geometry.Net - Basic_I: Identifying Birds

Insect Page Of Adalbert Goertz, Colorado Springs CO
Worse Whereas the puzzled birder will find someone knowledgeable among friendswho can help in identifying birds, the same cannot be said for the puzzled
http://www.cyberspace.org/~goertz/ins.html

Extractions: February 2003 Adalbert Goertz: Links that I find useful: Here are some insect mailing lists to consider: Diptera mailing list: Post message: Diptera@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: Diptera-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Hymenoptera mailing list: Post message: Hymenoptera@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: Hymenoptera-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Coleoptera mailing list: Post message: coleoptera@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: coleoptera-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Hemiptera mailing list: Post message: Hemiptera@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: Hemiptera-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Click here to my Insites: I invite your comment and suggestions on this page goertz@cyberspace.org
OnLocation(sm): Field Guides
Targeted toward beginning and casual birders, it features a photographic tableof contents and a quick index to simplify identifying birds quickly.
http://www.virtualbirder.com/vbirder/onLoc/guides/FieldGuides.html

Extractions: on The Virtual Birder. A good field guide is an essential tool for identifying birds. As a novice on one of the OnLocation(sm) tours you can choose to have page numbers displayed along with the species choices. The following provides information on each of the guides listed as a choice for the OnLocation tours. Others will be added shortly. All are good choices though there are differences that may make one better for your particular purposes. Here are some field guide tips to help you in evaluating field guides.
About OnLocation(sm)
Try your skill at identifying birds and compete for the top score. Topdaily and overall scores are posted. It's not all competitive.
http://www.virtualbirder.com/vbirder/onLoc/About.html

Extractions: About OnLocation(sm) OnLocation(sm) is a virtual birding trip to a real birding location. Each month The Virtual Birder(sm) will select an interesting location and produce an interactive experience that partially recreates what it's like to bird there. There'll be the sights and sounds of the location and of course there will be birds. Try your skill at identifying birds and compete for the top score. Top daily and overall scores are posted. It's not all competitive. There's a sighting board, so let people know what you find. Having trouble identifying a bird? Drop into the chat session and see if one of your fellow on-line birders can help out. The images take too long to load, is there anything I can do? Click on the lowest segment in the resize bar to right of the image. That will set the quickest image load time. The images look like I'm near sighted or looking through out of focus binoculars? This is due to photo compression. You can reduce this by clicking on one of the upper segments of the resize bar to the right of the image (at the cost of a longer image load time). Why are there so many images without birds?
Airport Wildlife Management
However, identifying birds involved in serious strike incidents when onlysmall feather fragments are found requires a special kind of expertise.
http://www.tc.gc.ca/aviation/aerodrme/birdstke/bulletin/awb17.htm

Extractions: In this issue we describe the process for identifying birds involved in collisions with aircraft with a special emphasis on electrophoresis of feather keratin, a process used to identify bird remains from small feather samples. Much of the material for this issue has been adapted from the work of Dr. Henri Ouellet, Researcher Emeritus at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The first recorded bird strike occurred on April 3, 1912, when a primitive airplane flying low over a beach in California collided with a gull and crashed into the ocean. The pilot, C.P. Rogers, drowned when he was trapped in the wreckage of his aircraft. This was also the first recorded crash in aviation history. Since this incident, numerous bird strikes (collisions between birds and aircraft) have been recorded. Most cause little or no damage; some have resulted in human casualties or heavy damage to aircraft or both (0.9% of all hull-loss airliner accidents worldwide result from bird strikes). The expansion of air travel worldwide has increased the potential for serious bird strikes. However, despite a recorded rise in the number of strikes, particularly since the advent of jet aircraft, the number of bird strike incidents has not increased in the same proportion as the overall number of flights. Measures derived from a better knowledge of bird activity have contributed to effectively reducing the number and significance of bird strikes. These results have been achieved through the co-operation of many people in the aviation community: transport regulation authorities, manufacturers, airport authorities, air traffic controllers, pilots, maintenance crews, landscape planners, architects, wildlife control personnel, wildlife biologists and ornithologists.
Faculty Profile: Susan Smith
Smith spent much of her girlhood identifying birds and learning their songs, andshe knew early on that sparrows, motmots, chickadees, and anything with
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/names/ssmith.shtml

Extractions: Norma Wait Harris and Emma Gale Harris Foundation Professor of Biological Sciences Specialization: Vertebrate behavioral ecology; social behavior of the color-banded black-capped chickadee Called the "doyenne of chickadee research" by National Wildlife magazine, Susan Smith is Mount Holyoke's most famous bird-watcher. Smith spent much of her girlhood identifying birds and learning their songs, and she knew early on that sparrows, motmots, chickadees, and "anything with feathers" would be her life's work. And so they have been, taking her to Alaska, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and, most often, the yards and woodlands near her Mount Holyoke lab. Smith's work on the response of naive birds to coral snake color patterns has become a textbook example in discussions on warning colorations and innate avoidance. Her discovery of the social system that controls rufous collared sparrows is widely cited as the first on such relationships among birds, since demonstrated in numerous other species. Her book
Backyard Birding - Bookstore - Bird Feeding Page
Format Trade Paper This unique guide helps readers learn how to attract more birds,become experts at identifying birds, and better understand bird behavior.
http://www.slivoski.com/birding/bookshop/Feed.htm

Extractions: Make gardens bird-friendly with this delightful pocket-sized guide. Essential advice on how to attract birds to any yard with baths, tables, feeders, and nest boxes is complemented by a wonderful photographic directory of 45 North American species and their behavior patterns. 128 pp. 25,000 print. ISBN: 1558211233
The Nature Store - Gardening For Birds
Outof-Stock) to Shopping Basket. learn how to attract more birds, becomeexperts at identifying birds, and better understand bird behavior.
http://thenaturestore.com/bookothergarden.htm
"An Idiot's Guide To Ornithology" , Birds Of Ambergris Caye
You think that's a trick question, don't you? Birders are identifying birds!This seems to be the largest most important subjectwhat is it?
http://www.ambergriscaye.com/birds/idiotguide.html

Extractions: T he recent extraordinary growth in popularity of Birdwatching as a hobby and the wave of interest in exploring, protecting and learning about the environment seem to be symptoms of a single desire: to become part of the natural world. I would like this involvement and participation in Birdwatching to be un-intimidating and easy, so with Elbert's help I have put together a few thoughts and helpful hints that might gently introduce the novice or even the complete idiot to the Avian world. We will begin by clarifying what a Birdwatcher is...already it gets confusing! There are a few terms we should define first. ORNITHOLOGIST- It simply means a person who studies birds, a term usually reserved to describe those serious scientific types that have some sort of degree in the subject and thus a rightful claim to moral superiority. BIRDWATCHER - Well, I hope you can get this one without much explanation, just a person who watches birds. Beginning or experienced, usually they own some binoculars, a field guide, know where to find a Roadside hawk, and keep a list of sightings. Today the connotation of birdwatcher is not hip and although it's an accurate and descriptive title, there are just too many to constitute an elite. BIRDER - As you may have already guessed, the hip, elite and seriously involved in identifying and collecting listings. Example: If you are a "birder" you don't go birdwatching, you go "birding" to adventurous locations.
Birds Of Ambergris Caye- Birdlistening
I've started spending time in early dawn on my veranda practicingidentifying birds by just listening to the surrounding habitat.
http://www.ambergriscaye.com/birds/listen.html

Extractions: I was feeling a little old and getting bored with birdwatching when Bubba decided to teach me a new trick. How bird songs can be used to identify the bird without actually seeing it. He introduced me to a tape from the Tropical Education Center, titled, "The Sounds of Belizean Birds" and this week I've become aware of an intriguing new aspect of birdwatching . . . Bird listening. I now have a long list of birds that I recognize by song alone. However bird identification by sound has turned out to be just a small part of my discovery. Bubba said, "Humans tend to notice birds because birds use the same sense organs as they do. The most important one is probably color vision, but hearing must lie a close second. They hear and of course communicate over a similar range of wavelengths." I've started spending time in early dawn on my veranda practicing identifying birds by just listening to the surrounding habitat. In the past I thought morning bird sounds were just a wake up call but Bubba has pointed out some very interesting features of what I thought I was hearing. He said, "Birdsongs are an elaborate series of messages in the 'language' of birds. Some complex songs may include as many as 80 notes per second. Such sounds seem like a single continuous note to the human ear and can only be seen not to be, by examination of a sound spectrograph recording the song. Not surprisingly, if the bird can give such calls it can also receive them. The speed of the auditory response of birds may be on the order of ten times as fast as that of a human.
Research Pinpoints Brain Activity
The fact that the face area became active when birdwatchers were identifying birdsand auto experts were identifying automobiles indicates that this high
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/register/Feb7_00/story1.html

Extractions: A team of psychologists from Vanderbilt and Yale universities have shown that the area of the brain that allows people to pick out quickly faces in a crowd also helps birdwatchers identify different species of birds with a glance and car experts distinguish between different makes and models of automobiles. In a study reported in the February issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, the researchers used the powerful technique of functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare the regions of the brain that veteran birdwatchers and car fanciers use to recognize pictures of human faces, birds and automobiles. They found that a small region located on the bottom of the brain, called the fusiform face area(FFA), activates when birdwatchers view human faces and birds. Similarly, the face area becomes active when auto experts look at human faces and automobiles.
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1000 am Steve Fass, Birder, identifying birds in Your Backyard . 100pm Steve Fass, Birder, identifying birds in Your Backyard .
http://www.visitbeloit.com/Birdify Beloit.htm

Extractions: Saturday, April 12, 2003 Rotary River Center, Riverside Drive, Beloit Silent Auction of Birdhouses all day Friends of RiverFront invite you to help BIRDIFY BELOIT by designing and building and decorating birdhouses and birdfeeders in these five categories: Designed/Built Decorated Special Designs (based on local landmarks) Original Art Young Artists and Crafters (under the age of 14) We also invite artist to submit original art with a bird influenced theme. Birdify Beloit is a fund-raiser to support Beloit RiverFront beautification projects. Entries are considered a donation to Friends of RiverFront and will be auctioned at a special event April 12, 2003. Entries must be received at VISIT BELOIT by April 4th to be considered for awards. Winners in each category will receive a 4"x8" Heritage Walkway named brick. Entry forms are now available at VISIT BELOIT, 1003 Pleasant Street. Assembled undecorated birdhouses also available for $5.00 at VISIT BELOIT. For further details, contact VISIT BELOIT at 608/365-4838.
Birds In Your Garden
identifying birds in your Backyard Peterson's Online Great Backyard Bird Count BackyardWildlife Tips Tricks To Identifying Your Backyard Birds (Wild Birds
http://www.avianweb.com/backyardbirds.htm

Extractions: BIRDS IN YOUR GARDEN Gardening to Attract W ildlife: Landscaping to Attract Birds (Baltimore Bird Club) Greenhouse Gardening Trees and Shrubs that will Attract Birds in North America - Birding About: Personal comment about Birding.About. This website has a lot of great info. HOWEVER, the big problem with that website is the MYRIAD of really, truly annoying "pop-up windows." And they place a lot of cookies on your computer, so even after you left the website, those darn things keep popping up. So be warned of that ... You may want to learn to "disable" cookies on your computer (Internet Tools / Security Options) and place a software on your computer that will automatically disable pop-up windows.Once that is done, the website is really worth visiting ... Backyard Habitat (WildBirds.com) Backyard Wildlife Planting for Habitat (NebGuide) Encouraging Birds to Nest in Small City Spaces Attracting Hummingbirds to your Garden (Hummingbirds.Net)
Alphabetical Index Of Birds
Alphabetical Listing of Birds (below) Bird Clipart Bird Photo Library Bird FieldGuides Help in identifying birds Bird Taxonomy What Do You Call a Group of
http://www.theaviary.com/bi-typesofbirds.shtml
PPR Birds - Bird Links
Bird Houses, Feeders, and Baths Google's directory. Bird Cams Around theWorld Watch live birds from your computer. identifying birds How to.
http://pprsites.tripod.com/pprbirds/PPR-Birds-Links.htm
How To Start Watching Birds Video
Birding is many things to many people sport, relaxation, study, anda way to meet new people. But it always includes identifying birds.
http://www.birdwatching.com/videos/h2swb_video.html

Extractions: With Diane Porter. Birdwatching is one of the fastest growing outdoor activities in America today. "How to Start Watching Birds" gives you everything you need so that you too can start enjoying birding. Birding is many things to many people sport, relaxation, study, and a way to meet new people. But it always includes identifying birds. Often the beginner is perplexed, though. What should you look for when you see a bird you don't recognize? Diane shows you how to look at a bird, note its field marks (or identifying characteristics) and then find it in your field guide. A field guide is one of the two basic tools of the birder (along with binoculars), but even some who have been birding for some time don't realize all the kinds of information it contains. Many experienced birds have reported that they get more out of their field guide after watching this video. Birding as appreciation: Many people love birds for their extraordinary beauty, like that of the Common Redpoll on a seedhead, at left (photographed by B.J. Rose).
Birds - A To Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Science
This is a colorful site with lots of interesting information, includingsound files and help identifying birds you may see or hear.
http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/explore/birds.htm

Extractions: Gifts for Smarter Kids, Toddlers through 12 Year Olds. A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Explorations 4 Kids I am Ann Zeise , your guide to the best and most interesting and useful sites and articles about home education on the web. Search Home New Kids Links One Exploration A Day Contact Ann Zeise ... Free Newsletter
Library Acquisitions For Members' Lending -- April 2001
2000. Not intended as a field guide, this book is meant to be a companionhandbook to aid in finding and identifying birds. This
http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/biodiv/biblio/publend/apr2001.htm

Extractions: Not intended as a field guide, this book is meant to be a companion handbook to aid in finding and identifying birds. This book provides birders with general concepts to develop good bird-finding, and a more in-depth examination of microhabitats and hard-to-identify species. In essence, this book spends time doing what field guides don't have room for. By far the largest portion of the book, along with chapters called Techniques of Finding Birds and Techniques of Identifying Birds, is Difficult Identifications: Beyond the Field Guide.
Audubon Missouri Home Page
If you have questions about finding or identifying birds in Missouri please contactone of the local Audubon chapters in Missouri or the Audubon Society of
http://www.audubon.org/chapter/mo/mo/

Extractions: Chariton Valley Audubon Society (Kirksville) Columbia Audubon Society (Columbia) East Ozarks Audubon Society (Farmington) Four Seasons Audubon Society (Cape Girardeau) Grand River Audubon Society (Chillicothe) Greater Ozarks Audubon Society (Springfield) Midland Empire Audubon Society (St. Joseph) Ozark Gateway Audubon Society (Joplin) Ozark Rivers Audubon Society (Rolla) River Bluffs Audubon Society (Jefferson City) St. Louis Audubon Society (St. Louis) Scenic Rivers Audubon Society (Poplar Bluff) Note: Only chapters that are underlined have Web sites.
Field Seminars - Rocky Mountain Nature Associaton - Estes Park Colorado
Because birds connect with insects and plants in vital ways, knowing something aboutbugs and botany can assist both finding and identifying birds and in so
http://www.rmna.org/display_seminars.php?cat=760
LIEYE.COM: Birdwatching In Your Own Backyard
two birds pictured below. identifying birds What is the first thingyou notice when looking at a bird? You probably answer its
http://www.lieye.com/articles/birdwatching/default.shtml

Extractions: by Lois W. Stern Birdwatching: What a fun, rewarding activity to share with your child! It requires little in the way of advance preparation, and can be done so simply and spontaneously - right in the comfort of your own backyard. We are fortunate to have so many different birds here on Long Island. With a little patience and a few observational pointers, you will be able to identify a number of them right away. Here are three simple steps to begin: GATHER YOUR SUPPLIES A pair of binoculars and a bird reference guide are two essentials for beginners. Binoculars will help you see more details of your bird visitors, even if they are some distance away. A reference guide will provide clues to identification as well as interesting information about your bird. GET COMFORTABLE

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