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Become a Birder Today!
by Georgia Butler
What comes to mind when you think of "birders"? Fuddy-duddy types wearing canvas hats and toting binoculars? Well, you'd be partially right -- fuddy-duddies can be found everywhere. Ha! But of course, anyone can be a birder. And if secretly you wish you were one, too, why not begin today? It's that simple.
Birders are people interested in birds. To become a "birder" you need only to recognize that interest. Here's how to start. Get a paper and pen or grab your laptop and begin by making a list of every bird that you currently are able to identify on sight. For many people, this list would probably contain the following birds:
Northern Cardinal Blue Jay American Crow American Robin Rock Pigeon Hummingbird (you might not know the species)
Perhaps your starting list is longer but, if not, you've still everything necessary to become a birder today.
Above this list indicate the title "Life List." Birders are like collectors who take huge pride in their ability to identify birds both by sight and/or sound -- hopefully both. Therefore, they keep a running list of every bird they've ever identified, anywhere, anytime. Though I began birding in 1990, I didn't formally begin a Life List until 2005! What took me so long!
Let's imagine that the above list is in fact yours. Thus, on this date of October 14, 2009, you've six birds on your Life List. What's your next step? Easy. Keep your eyes and ears open to the birds around you. Whether you live in the city, suburbs, or country, there are lots of birds to see and hear. But how do you identify these birds if you don't now know them?
Come back next week to find out! Till then, keep interested by researching information on the birds you already know. Go to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's web site All About Birds. Find the tab "Birding Basics" and then select "Bird Guide." Enter each bird you know and learn information that you didn't know.
About the Author
And visit my Bird Blog, where weekly I post on birds I've seen or heard during the week.
-- Georgia Anne Butler
Georgia Anne Butler is a birder of Central Pennsylvania and author of the trilogy Of the Wing. Book 1 of this trilogy, The Legend Awakes, is currently available and Book 2 is scheduled for release in May, 2010. Visit the trilogy web site at ofthewing.com/You'll also find a link from the home page to the author's Bird Blog, where she weekly posts on bird or birds encountered during the week.
eBay Black Friday Birds Eye view
A heat-map visualization of US-based buyer and seller transactions on Black Friday, 2009.
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