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How to Tell Crows and Ravens Apart by Sight and Sound
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Quiz: Can You Pick the Closest Relatives on the Tree of Avian Evolution?
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Project FeederWatch How to Identify the 3 Red Finches: Cassin's, House, and Purple
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Bird ID Skills: How to Learn Bird Songs and Calls
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Living Bird Magazine 5 Tips for Spring Warbler Watching
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Living Bird Magazine Top 5 Tips for Finding Birds Nesting Near You
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Living Bird Magazine Find More Birds with These 8 Suggestions for Your Birding Routine
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Why Do Birdwatchers Need Close Focus in Binoculars?
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Binoculars and Beyond: Nine Tips for Beginning Birdwatchers
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Living Bird Magazine Birdwatching Tips: It's Summer... Where Did the Birds Go?
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Macaulay Library The Brand New Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds is Here
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Living Bird Magazine Bird Profile: White-throated Sparrow
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Living Bird Magazine Bird Profile: American Kestrel
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Merlin Free Merlin Bird ID App IDs Thousands of Species
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Living Bird Magazine Bird Profile: The White-tailed Ptarmigan
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Living Bird Magazine Learn How to ID These 5 Confusing Streaked Sparrows
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Merlin Get More From Merlin Bird ID With These Powerful Features
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Living Bird Magazine 6 Warbler Hotspots to Try Out This Spring—Plus, How to Find Your Own
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Living Bird Magazine Winter is the Season to Find Massive Flocks of Waterfowl—Here's How
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eBird eBird Explore Species Shows You Photos and Info on Every Bird in the World
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eBird eBird Quiz: Test Your Bird Knowledge with Photos and Sounds
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Living Bird Magazine What Does A Dawn Chorus of Bird Song "Look" Like?
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Nathan Pieplow: Bird Sounds Decoded [video]
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Bird Academy BeastBox—Make Your Own Music by Mixing Animal Sounds With Beatbox Loops
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Project FeederWatch Why do Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers look so similar when they aren’t close relatives?
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Living Bird Magazine Learn Bird Songs by Listening Deeply: Q&A With Don Kroodsma
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eBird Merlin Bird ID Can Now Identify Birds From Photos Thanks to eBirders
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Neotropical Birds The Cornell Lab's Neotropical Birds Website
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Living Bird Magazine ID Tips for Raptor-Watching Season: Use Tail and Wing Shape
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eBird Find Out What Birds to Look for With eBird Targets
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Living Bird Magazine Get to Know Your Bird Families With a New Handbook
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How to Identify White Herons
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Living Bird Magazine Where's the White? A Simple Question can be the Key in Waterfowl ID
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Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak From a Female Purple Finch
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Bird Academy What Duck is That? Learn IDs With a Diving Ducks Puzzle
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eBird How to Count Birds at Your Feeder for Entry in eBird
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Project FeederWatch Lessons Learned as a Project FeederWatch Participant
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K–12 Education How to Use eBird to Make a Custom List of the Birds Near You
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5 Great Features of the Warbler Guide App That Won't Fit in Any Book
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How to Listen to Bird Song—Tips and Examples From The Warbler Guide
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Four Nuthatches, Four Ways to Make It Through a Cold Winter
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eBird eBird Quizzes, Social Media
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eBird Identifying hybrid Mottled Ducks
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Great Backyard Bird Count Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks
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Great Backyard Bird Count Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers
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Great Backyard Bird Count Woodpeckers With Red Heads
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Great Backyard Bird Count Identifying Doves
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Great Backyard Bird Count Is It a Black-capped or Carolina Chickadee?
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Great Backyard Bird Count Which Red Finch Is It?
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Great Backyard Bird Count Identifying Some Common Sparrows
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Raptors of Winter
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eBird The Parade of Plumage Challenge
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Simple Steps for Identifying Confusing Brown Ducks—Females and Otherwise
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eBird Introducing eBird Targets—Know Where and What to Look For
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Five Fresh Ideas for Finding Birds This Fall
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eBird Winter Finch Forecast 2014–2015
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eBird Identifying Bay-breasted and Blackpoll Warblers
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It's Here: Free Merlin Bird ID App Now Available for Android
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Identify the Brown, Streaky, Juvenile Songbirds of Summer With These Tips
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Merlin Merlin Help & FAQ
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Merlin Use Your Computer to ID a Photo of a Bird
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Learn How to Bird by Ear With Our Bird Song Hero Game
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Bird Academy Bird Song Hero
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ID Workshop: Use 4 Basic Keys Plus Migration Timing to Sort Out Your Thrushes
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Living Bird Magazine How to Bird by Ear: Q&A With Michael O'Brien and Louise Zemaitis
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Great New Tips for Identifying Warblers—From the Authors of The Warbler Guide
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Birding Tips: On Cold Spring Mornings, Spend Some Time in the Sun
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eBird Sagebrush and Bell's Sparrows
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Ten Secrets to Never Having a Slow Day in the Field [Video]
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Living Bird Magazine Merlin Bird ID App: Q&A With Jessie Barry
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Merlin Get Free ID Help With Our Merlin Bird ID App
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Merlin Merlin Bird ID--Free app from the Cornell Lab
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Project FeederWatch American or Lesser? Take the Goldfinch Quiz!
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eBird How to Plan a Birding Day Trip With eBird Hotspots
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Our Review: Best iPhone Apps for Learning Bird Songs
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eBird November—Time for Little Gulls
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eBird November Birding: Look for Rarities in Urban and Suburban Microclimates
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Project FeederWatch Tricky Bird IDs
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NestWatch Identifying Nests and Eggs
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Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Downy Woodpecker From a Hairy Woodpecker
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Project FeederWatch How to Identify Common Doves
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Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Black-capped Chickadee from a Carolina Chickadee
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Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Sharp-shinned Hawk from a Cooper's Hawk
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Project FeederWatch How to Tell an American Tree Sparrow from a Chipping Sparrow
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Project FeederWatch Download FeederWatch Bird ID Posters
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Celebrate Urban Birds Tips for Identifying the Focal Species of the Celebrate Urban Birds Project
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eBird Winter Finch Forecast 2013-2014
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eBird Introducing the eBird Hotspot Explorer
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eBird How to Report a Rarity: 11 Elements of a Great Bird Description
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Review: New Warbler Guide Practically Sings With Information, Innovation
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eBird Eurasian Sandwich Terns in North America
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Living Bird Magazine A Master Set of Bird Sounds: Q&A with Matt Young
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Living Bird Magazine Book Review: Crossley ID Guide: Raptors, by Richard Crossley, Jerry Ligouri, and Brian Sullivan
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Celebrate Urban Birds Conoce los Pájaros de Tu Barrio—en Ingles y Español
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Celebrate Urban Birds Urban Birding Brochure in English and Spanish
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Celebrate Urban Birds Identification, Certificates, Resources, and Tips for Urban Birding
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Courses Our Self-Paced Web Tutorials Will Help You Learn Bird Identification
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Macaulay Library Finally: a "Master Set" of 4,938 Downloadable Bird Sounds
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New Crossley ID Quiz Challenges You to ID Raptors From Above
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A Hawk-Watching Quiz on the Prairie, Crossley Style
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eBird ID Tips for Tricky Finches
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Sharpen Up Your Sharpie ID With New Crossley Raptor Guide
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eBird Why Did Razorbills Invade Florida in 2012?
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eBird Guidelines for Responsibly Reporting Sensitive Species
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eBird Where to Watch for Rare Seabirds During Storms Like Hurricane Sandy
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Living Bird Magazine The Bold and the Bashful: the Personalities of Backyard Birds
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Living Bird Magazine Bird ID Help: Tackling Tricky Sparrows
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eBird North American Red Crossbill Types: Status and Flight Call Identification
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eBird Hurricane Birding: an eBird Primer, Revisited
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Neotropical Birds Neotropical Birds Online
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Courses Be a Better Birder tutorials
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Spring Warbler Warm-Up Quiz
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Identify Spring Warblers With These Expert Tips
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eBird How to Use Radar to Detect Birds: the Basics
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eBird Bird Counting 101: How to Estimate the Numbers of Birds You're Seeing
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eBird Bird Counting 201: How to Count Birds in Large Flocks
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Great Backyard Bird Count Have you heard the top five species in the Great Backyard Bird Count?
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See the Only Known Images of the Lost Imperial Woodpecker [Video]
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eBird Understanding Birds & Weather: Fall Birding Basics
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eBird Patterns of Rarity: The Birding Fallout From Hurricane Irene
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eBird Grackles—Are You Getting Them Right?
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eBird Confusing Flycatchers? Use Migration Timing to Your Advantage!
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eBird Identification Pitfalls—Crows and Ravens
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eBird Use Range Maps to Identify Your Chickadees
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Listen Up!: Learning Bird Sounds
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Celebrate Urban Birds Siluetas de 16 Aves Comunes en Este Cartel
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Celebrate Urban Birds ID 16 Common Birds by Silhouette With This Poster
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eBird New eBird/iPhone app puts local knowledge in your pocket
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Photo Quiz 2: Funky Birds With Bright Markings
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Learn a Flight Call: White-throated Sparrow
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Inside Birding: How-To Videos for Learning Bird Identification
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Bird ID Skills: Behavior
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Bird ID Skills: Field Marks
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Bird ID Skills: Color Pattern
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Inside Birding: Size and Shape
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Inside Birding: Habitat
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Inside Birding: Color Pattern
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Inside Birding: Understanding Behavior
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Bird ID Skills: Habitat
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Bird ID Skills: Size & Shape
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Building Skills: The 4 Keys to Bird Identification
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How to See a Sound That's a Half-Second Long
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Let's Go Birding!... At Night... Blindfolded