Click image for a larger version. (Right-click to open in a new window if you’d like to have the photo visible while you read the answers below.) The new Crossley ID Guide: Raptors came out in April. Crossley’s innovative technique of cramming lots of photos onto a page seems to work especially well with such large birds [...]
(Click image for a larger version) The new Crossley guide hits bookstores this week, bringing Crossley’s unique approach to the task of helping you identify more raptors—whether they’re familiar, unfamiliar, faraway, backlit, immature, adult, light-morph, dark-morph, soaring, hovering, or sitting. With raptors for a subject, this guide concerns itself with far fewer species than [...]
Congratulations to everyone who took Photo Quiz 4. No one had much trouble picking out the stockier, thicker-billed Philadelphia Vireo amid the warblers on display—a clear example of the value of size and shape in picking out differences in similarly colored birds. (See our free video series Inside Birding for more on how to ID [...]
(Click photo for larger version) It’s technically still fall, even if we do have snow on the ground already. Perhaps the warm colors in our photo quiz will bring back some toasty memories of birding a couple of months ago. Did you see any of the above species? For that matter, what are the species [...]
It’s nearly winter, and those of you lucky enough to live near some beaches or mudflats probably enjoy gazing out over motley assortments of shorebirds like this one. Until you can get outside, though, cast your eyes over this photo and help us answer the question: How many species are in this photo? (Of course, [...]
