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