Here’s what you need to know about identifying birds. Watch the Bird Closely Don’t immediately reach for your field guide.

Amy Tan, author of the book “The Backyard ... than paging through field guides by offering step-by-step processes that narrow down a list of possible birds or identify a bird by its song.

However, the book is called A Dumb Birds Field Guide to the WORST BIRDS EVER, so you can see my dilemma. People (the human kind, not the magazine kind) are always asking me what my favorite bird is.

Bird Watching in the Field Now that you’ve got some experience under your belt, it’s time to take your show on the road (or into the field). Grab your bird-watching gear and hit the trail.

I was hosing bird droppings—a staggeringly copious amount ... nightingales and bullfinches. This is a book about a well-meaning introduction and its unintended and wholly catastrophic consequences.

Tanner's photographs of the ivory-billed woodpecker with guide J.J. Kuhn were ... not only field notes, from which he literally wrote the book on the species, but also photographs.

Update: Harney County flooding forces 44th migratory bird festival to cancel Bucket ... author of the helpfully detailed book, “Guide to Birding Harney County.” Fuller said Malheur, one ...

Jim describes the book as a “natural history field guide" rather than solely an identification guide for good reason. When it comes to some groups - say, birds or salamanders - it's possible to ...