Bird ID Skills

Why Do Birdwatchers Need Close Focus in Binoculars?

Binoculars and Beyond: Nine Tips for Beginning Birdwatchers

Living Bird Magazine Birdwatching Tips: It's Summer... Where Did the Birds Go?

Macaulay Library The Brand New Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds is Here

Living Bird Magazine Bird Profile: White-throated Sparrow

Living Bird Magazine Bird Profile: American Kestrel

Merlin Free Merlin Bird ID App Covers Thousands of Species and IDs Photos and Sounds

Living Bird Magazine Bird Profile: The White-tailed Ptarmigan

Living Bird Magazine Learn How to ID These 5 Confusing Streaked Sparrows

Merlin Get More From Merlin Bird ID With These Powerful Features

Living Bird Magazine 6 Warbler Hotspots to Try Out This Spring—Plus, How to Find Your Own

Living Bird Magazine Winter is the Season to Find Massive Flocks of Waterfowl—Here's How

eBird eBird Explore Species Shows You Photos and Info on Every Bird in the World

eBird eBird Quiz: Test Your Bird Knowledge with Photos and Sounds

Living Bird Magazine What Does A Dawn Chorus of Bird Song "Look" Like?

Nathan Pieplow: Bird Sounds Decoded [video]

Bird Academy BeastBox—Make Your Own Music by Mixing Animal Sounds With Beatbox Loops

Project FeederWatch Why do Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers look so similar when they aren’t close relatives?

Living Bird Magazine Learn Bird Songs by Listening Deeply: Q&A With Don Kroodsma

eBird Merlin Bird ID Can Now Identify Birds From Photos Thanks to eBirders

Neotropical Birds The Cornell Lab's Neotropical Birds Website

Living Bird Magazine ID Tips for Raptor-Watching Season: Use Tail and Wing Shape

eBird Find Out What Birds to Look for With eBird Targets

Living Bird Magazine Top Three Signs That Birds are Nesting Near You

Living Bird Magazine Get to Know Your Bird Families With a New Handbook

How to Identify White Herons

Living Bird Magazine Where's the White? A Simple Question can be the Key in Waterfowl ID

Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak From a Female Purple Finch

Bird Academy What Duck is That? Learn IDs With a Diving Ducks Puzzle

eBird How to Count Birds at Your Feeder for Entry in eBird

Project FeederWatch Lessons Learned as a Project FeederWatch Participant

K–12 Education How to Use eBird to Make a Custom List of the Birds Near You

5 Great Features of the Warbler Guide App That Won't Fit in Any Book

How to Listen to Bird Song—Tips and Examples From The Warbler Guide

Four Nuthatches, Four Ways to Make It Through a Cold Winter

eBird eBird Quizzes, Social Media

eBird Identifying hybrid Mottled Ducks

Great Backyard Bird Count Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks

Great Backyard Bird Count Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers

Great Backyard Bird Count Woodpeckers With Red Heads

Great Backyard Bird Count Identifying Doves

Great Backyard Bird Count Is It a Black-capped or Carolina Chickadee?

Great Backyard Bird Count Which Red Finch Is It?

Great Backyard Bird Count Identifying Some Common Sparrows

Raptors of Winter

eBird The Parade of Plumage Challenge

Simple Steps for Identifying Confusing Brown Ducks—Females and Otherwise

eBird Introducing eBird Targets—Know Where and What to Look For

Five Fresh Ideas for Finding Birds This Fall

How to Get Crystal Clear Focus With Your Binoculars

eBird Winter Finch Forecast 2014–2015

eBird Identifying Bay-breasted and Blackpoll Warblers

It's Here: Free Merlin Bird ID App Now Available for Android

Identify the Brown, Streaky, Juvenile Songbirds of Summer With These Tips

Merlin Merlin Help & FAQ

Merlin Use Your Computer to ID a Photo of a Bird

Learn How to Bird by Ear With Our Bird Song Hero Game

Bird Academy Bird Song Hero

ID Workshop: Use 4 Basic Keys Plus Migration Timing to Sort Out Your Thrushes

Living Bird Magazine How to Bird by Ear: Q&A With Michael O'Brien and Louise Zemaitis

Great New Tips for Identifying Warblers—From the Authors of The Warbler Guide

Birding Tips: On Cold Spring Mornings, Spend Some Time in the Sun

eBird Sagebrush and Bell's Sparrows

Ten Secrets to Never Having a Slow Day in the Field [Video]

Living Bird Magazine Merlin Bird ID App: Q&A With Jessie Barry

Merlin Get Free ID Help With Our Merlin Bird ID App

Merlin Merlin Bird ID--Free app from the Cornell Lab

Project FeederWatch American or Lesser? Take the Goldfinch Quiz!

eBird How to Plan a Birding Day Trip With eBird Hotspots

Our Review: Best iPhone Apps for Learning Bird Songs

eBird November—Time for Little Gulls

eBird November Birding: Look for Rarities in Urban and Suburban Microclimates

Project FeederWatch Tricky Bird IDs

NestWatch Identifying Nests and Eggs

Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Downy Woodpecker From a Hairy Woodpecker

Project FeederWatch How to Identify the 3 Red Finches: Cassin's, House, and Purple

Project FeederWatch How to Identify Common Doves

Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Black-capped Chickadee from a Carolina Chickadee

Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Sharp-shinned Hawk from a Cooper's Hawk

Project FeederWatch How to Tell an American Tree Sparrow from a Chipping Sparrow

Project FeederWatch Download FeederWatch Bird ID Posters

Celebrate Urban Birds Tips for Identifying the Focal Species of the Celebrate Urban Birds Project

eBird Winter Finch Forecast 2013-2014

eBird Introducing the eBird Hotspot Explorer

eBird How to Report a Rarity: 11 Elements of a Great Bird Description

Review: New Warbler Guide Practically Sings With Information, Innovation

eBird Eurasian Sandwich Terns in North America

Living Bird Magazine A Master Set of Bird Sounds: Q&A with Matt Young

Living Bird Magazine Book Review: Crossley ID Guide: Raptors, by Richard Crossley, Jerry Ligouri, and Brian Sullivan

Celebrate Urban Birds Conoce los Pájaros de Tu Barrio—en Ingles y Español

Celebrate Urban Birds Urban Birding Brochure in English and Spanish

Celebrate Urban Birds Identification, Certificates, Resources, and Tips for Urban Birding

Courses Our Self-Paced Web Tutorials Will Help You Learn Bird Identification

Macaulay Library Finally: a "Master Set" of 4,938 Downloadable Bird Sounds

New Crossley ID Quiz Challenges You to ID Raptors From Above

Living Bird Magazine 5 Tips for Spring Warbler Watching

A Hawk-Watching Quiz on the Prairie, Crossley Style

eBird ID Tips for Tricky Finches

Sharpen Up Your Sharpie ID With New Crossley Raptor Guide

eBird Why Did Razorbills Invade Florida in 2012?

eBird Guidelines for Responsibly Reporting Sensitive Species

eBird Where to Watch for Rare Seabirds During Storms Like Hurricane Sandy

Living Bird Magazine The Bold and the Bashful: the Personalities of Backyard Birds

Living Bird Magazine Bird ID Help: Tackling Tricky Sparrows

eBird North American Red Crossbill Types: Status and Flight Call Identification

eBird Hurricane Birding: an eBird Primer, Revisited

Neotropical Birds Neotropical Birds Online

Similar Species: Crows and Ravens

Courses Be a Better Birder tutorials

Spring Warbler Warm-Up Quiz

Identify Spring Warblers With These Expert Tips

eBird How to Use Radar to Detect Birds: the Basics

eBird Bird Counting 101: How to Estimate the Numbers of Birds You're Seeing

eBird Bird Counting 201: How to Count Birds in Large Flocks

Great Backyard Bird Count Have you heard the top five species in the Great Backyard Bird Count?

See the Only Known Images of the Lost Imperial Woodpecker [Video]

eBird Understanding Birds & Weather: Fall Birding Basics

eBird Patterns of Rarity: The Birding Fallout From Hurricane Irene

eBird Grackles—Are You Getting Them Right?

eBird Confusing Flycatchers? Use Migration Timing to Your Advantage!

eBird Identification Pitfalls—Crows and Ravens

eBird Use Range Maps to Identify Your Chickadees

Listen Up!: Learning Bird Sounds

Celebrate Urban Birds Siluetas de 16 Aves Comunes en Este Cartel

Celebrate Urban Birds ID 16 Common Birds by Silhouette With This Poster

eBird New eBird/iPhone app puts local knowledge in your pocket

Photo Quiz 2: Funky Birds With Bright Markings

Learn a Flight Call: White-throated Sparrow

Inside Birding: How-To Videos for Learning Bird Identification

Bird ID Skills: How to Learn Bird Songs and Calls

Bird ID Skills: Behavior

Bird ID Skills: Field Marks

Bird ID Skills: Color Pattern

Inside Birding: Size and Shape

Inside Birding: Habitat

Inside Birding: Color Pattern

Inside Birding: Understanding Behavior

Bird ID Skills: Habitat

Bird ID Skills: Size & Shape

Building Skills: The 4 Keys to Bird Identification

How to See a Sound That's a Half-Second Long

Let's Go Birding!... At Night... Blindfolded