
Category: Birding Basics
How to begin birding or improve your bird watching skills. Learn about the birding year, and identifying species, learn life cycle and behavior.
For beginning birders, what birders are doing, how they know things, and when to bird watch are mysteries. Hopefully, the information provided here can clear up those questions.


Mystery Bird in the Middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Spring Bird Migration for Beginning Birders

A Winter Bird Feeding Guide: Attract Birds to Your Backyard (with Video)

Identifying Savannah and Song Sparrows

Winter Birding: How to Master It (with video)

Secrets for Capturing Stunning Bird Photographs

Fall Raptor Migration: What You Need to Know (with video)

Bird Migration Facts

The Dawn Chorus

Learn the Fall and Winter Plumage of these Common Birds

An Easier Way to Draw Birds (video) — John Muir Laws

Identifying Birds by Color: A Collection of Photo Galleries

Blue Birds: Identifying Birds by Color (A Photo Gallery)

Cavity Nesters: Birds that Use Holes in Trees

How and Why Birds Change their Plumage.

Birds by Color: Orange Birds

The Relationship Between Birds, Berries and Fruit

Attracting Birds with Fruit Trees and Berry Plants

How a Cardinal Makes His Red Feathers

Birds by Color: Red Birds

Birds by Color: Identifying Little Gray Birds

Get Involved in the Christmas Bird Count

Choosing Binoculars for Nature Study

Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Pollinators

Spring Blooming Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds

A Backyard Habitat Garden: What You Need to Start One

How to Attract Birds to Your Garden

Put out Nesting Materials and Nest Boxes March 1
