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| Bird Topography 101 |
| Everyone knows it is helpful to have a map when traveling to new places [or at least some of us do]. Well the same thing holds true for birding. It is important to understand the geography of a bird to identify it correctly. |
| The bird identification books
tend to use terms referring to different parts of the bird’s
body to describe the bird such as - the bird has two white wing-bars
or the eye-ring is broken. While looking at the picture in the
book it seems obvious. But when you are in the field it will
be important to know if the yellow on that warbler is on the
breast or the belly. Where exactly does the breast stop and
the belly begin anyway??? |
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is a bird map that might
help you begin to learn the parts of a birds body. As you can
see it’s a composite but I think it still does a good job
of showing what’s where. And you are more likely to remember
this picture than some of the ‘official’ ones in the
ID books. Study hard. |
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