The Best Birding Spots in San Antonio
Central Texas has a rich diversity of wildlife and many birds to see. The best places to see birds in San Antonio are: Mitchell Lake … Read more
Written by: Jeff Mann
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Guides
App Reviews, Guides, Main Feed
The Ultimate Digital Birding Toolkit
There are many benefits to bringing your mobile device with you into the field when you go birding. Mobile apps offer a wide variety of ways to help you bird better, including: field guides, ID tools, observation tools and more. Keep reading to learn the must-have birding apps for your mobile phone.
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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.
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Guide: Building the Perfect Birdhouse
Give a bird a home! Building a birdhouse is a really fun little DIY project to tackle. Learn what it takes to create the perfect birdhouse and get ready to say hello to some feathered friends!
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Organizing bird photos guide
Organizing photos is very important task to do as soon as you begin bird photography. On a typical birding day, you could easily take 300-500 pictures. Keeping all your photos organized without the help of some software can be a difficult and time-consuming task. There are a handful of different applications that can be used to organize—but the industry standard tool is Adobe Lightroom.
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Education, Featured, Guides, Main Feed
Duck Feeding PSA
No bread, of any kind, has any nutritional value for ducks. By feeding them bread, it fills their stomachs while providing no nutrients. It’s essentially the equivalent of humans eating cotton balls, or grass. This also goes for such snacks as tortilla chips, regular chips, pretzels, cheesies etc. The oil, salt, and/or flavoring on any human snack is no good for ducks. This is especially important for the wee ones during the breeding season, while they’re growing.
Written by: Andrea Mott
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Education, Featured, Guides, Main Feed, Science
5 Tips on Breaking into the Biology Profession
Getting a job is hard. Thousands of millennials graduate college each year with nothing else to show for it than a piece of paper. A diploma no longer gets you a full-time job right out of college. The job market is tough, especially in the wildlife field. There is a finite amount of jobs for a growing pool of applicants. This doesn’t mean you can’t get there, it just means you have to put in a little more effort beyond your time spent at college!
Here are a quick 5 tips on breaking into the biology profession:
Written by: Andrea Mott
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