#anonymous ebirder

[herpsandbirds]

Smew (Mergellus albellus), male, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Mooka-Igashira Park, Moka, Tochigi, Japan

photographs by anonymous photographer on eBird 

[perfect-plumage]

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus)

© Anonymous eBirder

[birds-and-flowers]

Yellow-throated Bulbul (Pycnonotus xantholaemus)

© Anonymous eBirder

[baby-bird-beaks]

Japanese Tit (Parus minor)

© Anonymous eBirder

[draconym]

I have a question, because ive always wanted to know how to identify animals,, do people go to school for that? Are there classes i can take??? Or do i just kinda do a bunch of research? Im sorry if this weird im just dumb and this is my dream

Identification is definitely a big component of a lot of biology courses! But, uh, my degree is in art, so I’ve only done a little bit of my biology learning in a classroom setting. Learning to read an Identification Key is an important skill, but if you search YouTube (or elsewhere) for topics like “bird identification” or “fish identification” you’ll turn up a bunch of helpful videos. There’s a lot of free educational material out there right now.

I like to just browse around sites like AllAboutBirds because they have a “compare with similar species” feature and you can just click endlessly. I also highly recommend Cornell’s Bird Academy videos, which aren’t especially ID-focused but will familiarize you with a lot of different bird species and their habits. Earlier today I was taking the eBird quiz ... sorry so much of my advice is bird-centric! But you can definitely find a lot of biology course material online for free.

[krogerconews]

Checklist S43667340

Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:14 PM. Protocol: Stationary. Party Size: 1. Duration: 1 minute(s). Observers: Anonymous eBirder. Comments: N/A. Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.6.36. Species. Hide Media. 4 species (+1 other taxa) total. 45. Canada Goose. 20. Redhead. 2. Greater/Lesser Scaup. 3. Killdeer ... from Google Alert - "fred meyer" | "king soopers" | kroger | ralphs | fry's | qfc | dillons | -"john kroger" -"qatar" -"stephen fry" http://ift.tt/2tTsIec via IFTTT

[animebirdr-blog]

Birding 10 Jan 2018

I had a little extra time at lunch today, so I popped over to a retention pond in the neighborhood east of my workplace.  What I hadn’t planned on was the wind picking up and basically shutting down all passerine activity.  Yay. While some extra sparrows would’ve been nice, that wasn’t the real reason I was there -- this anonymous neighborhood pond had always been reliable for a particular species that I needed for the year.  So I walked down to the cattails on the west side and queued up the requisite call on allaboutbirds. pprrrrWHEE-PEWPEWPEWpewpewpew pew pew! A moment of relative stillness ... and then one staccato whinny.  Then two!  And just like that, the first two Sora of the year were straight onto my phone, getting logged onto eBird. Checklist of the day: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41796146 (11 sp) Austin TX USA

[krogerconews]

Checklist S43667340

Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:14 PM. Protocol: Stationary. Party Size: 1. Duration: 1 minute(s). Observers: Anonymous eBirder. Comments: N/A. Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.6.36. Species. Hide Media. 4 species (+1 other taxa) total. 45. Canada Goose. 20. Redhead. 2. Greater/Lesser Scaup. 3. Killdeer ... from Google Alert - "fred meyer" | "king soopers" | kroger | ralphs | fry's | qfc | dillons | -"john kroger" -"qatar" -"stephen fry" http://ift.tt/2tTsIec via IFTTT