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Peterson Reference Guide To Birding By Impression: A Different Approach to Knowing and Identifying Birds (Peterson Reference Guides)
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A highly visual guide to identifying birds in the field based on the important, unchanging features of size, shape, structure, and behavior
Birding is an extremely rewarding and fun hobby, but some situations can be frustrating or unsuccessful because of a variety of challenging viewing conditions. This guide to identifying birds offers the holistic “birding by impression” method, which not only helps with these difficult conditions, but also develops an efficient mental identification process using left- and right-brain skills. It begins with a conscious assessment of a bird’s unchanging physical characteristics, including general size, body shape, structural features (bill, legs, neck, and wings), and behavior. Using this approach, birders can quickly assess all birds and distinguish new and uncommon species from familiar ones. They can then examine more detailed field marks to fine-tune the identification. Rather than a traditional field guide, this book presents an interactive how-to approach to a more complete identification process.
Birding is an extremely rewarding and fun hobby, but some situations can be frustrating or unsuccessful because of a variety of challenging viewing conditions. This guide to identifying birds offers the holistic “birding by impression” method, which not only helps with these difficult conditions, but also develops an efficient mental identification process using left- and right-brain skills. It begins with a conscious assessment of a bird’s unchanging physical characteristics, including general size, body shape, structural features (bill, legs, neck, and wings), and behavior. Using this approach, birders can quickly assess all birds and distinguish new and uncommon species from familiar ones. They can then examine more detailed field marks to fine-tune the identification. Rather than a traditional field guide, this book presents an interactive how-to approach to a more complete identification process.
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“I was really interested in this approach to birding, and I think it is sort of what I was already intuitively doing on my own. It's certainly difficult sometimes to identify birds by elements that are not static, like plumage. Sometimes when I look at all the different types (male, female, breeding, non-breeding, juvenile) in my Sibley guide, it makes my head spin a little. For me the easiest ways to identify are through calls and movement, which are only accessible through a great deal of familiarity. This book is helpful in that it makes comparisons between what may be more familiar birds and others that are similar. It has a lot of fun exercises to help you develop your eye, for example, learning to identify raptors by silhouette--which is helpful when they're flying high in the sky and you can't see any identifiers other than their shape. It's also beautifully illustrated.”
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