Casual Birding – For those short on time
Going birding doesn’t always have to be an hours-long affair. Finding time to look for birds can be as easy as stopping by a park … Read more
Written by: Jeff Mann
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Education
Non-obvious Tips to Help Identify Birds
After going bird watching a few times or watching your feeder for a few weeks, the birds slowly start to look more and more familiar. But it can still be a challenge to discern one bird from another or to learn to recognize a new species you’ve seen only a few times.
Written by: Jeff Mann
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Birding Summary, Education, Featured
My first time recording birds with a shotgun microphone
Microphone. Power supply. Shock mount. Windscreen. Pistol grip. XLR cable. Headphones. Recorder. Bird. All of these things work together to capture a bird song. Following the Audubon’s Guide to Recording Bird Song, I scoured the internet to put together my own secondhand bird recording kit.
Written by: Jeff Mann
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Education, Entertainment, Featured, Main Feed
What is that ugly duck at the park called?
When you go to your local park pond, you are likely to see a consistent cast of birds on the water, some pretty and some not so much… It’s good to familiarize yourself with the park birds you are about to see to make identification easier.
Written by: Jeff Mann
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Birding Summary, Education, Featured
Transitioning from Photographing to Recording Birds
I’ve been photographing birds for years as a way to document what I see and to satisfy creative endeavors. If a picture is worth a thousand words then a sound may be worth ten-thousand. When you go birding, you often hear a bird before you see it, if you see it at all. To go from being a good to a great birder, the ability to pick up and identify birds by their song or call is critical.
Written by: Jeff Mann
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Education, Featured, Main Feed
Passing on the History of the Passenger Pigeon
What if I told you that the there once was a population so vast and mighty that its members could block out the sun.
A combined power so great it could shape the continent. These creatures were not the dinosaurs of the Jurassic period or Roman soldiers two millennia past, but the Passenger Pigeon. A North American bird who’s extinction came just a hundred years ago.
Written by: Jared Asser
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Education, Featured, Main Feed
The Health Benefits of Bird Watching
Do you love nothing more than grabbing your binoculars and heading out in the woods to see how many different varieties of birds you can spot? Bird watching is a popular hobby – according to the RSPB, some three million adults do it every year in the UK! Plus, it is one of the easiest hobbies to start because they can be seen anywhere, and you don’t even need binoculars to do it. (They are a big help though)
But, did you know that it is also good for your health – both mentally and physically?
Written by: Naomi Webb
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