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Birding Quickstart: Your First Good Hour Outside
A calm beginner path for getting started with birding: what to bring, where to stand, what to notice, and how to …
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Molt and Seasonal Plumage: Reading Birds Through the Year
A beginner-friendly field guide to molt, feather wear, juvenile birds, breeding and nonbreeding plumage, and why birds …
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Raptor Watching for Beginners: Shape, Soaring, and Patience
A narrative beginner guide to watching hawks, eagles, falcons, vultures, and other raptors by shape, flight style, …
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Reading Bird Behavior for Beginners: What Birds Are Already Telling You
A narrative beginner guide to reading bird behavior in the field through feeding, posture, movement, alarm calls, …
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Shorebirds for Beginners: Reading Shape, Feeding, and Tide
A narrative beginner guide to shorebird watching, focusing on habitat, tide, bill shape, leg length, feeding behavior, …
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Seawatching and Big-Water Birding for Beginners
A narrative beginner guide to seawatching and big-water birding, covering scopes, weather, distance, flight lines, …
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Patch Birding: Learning One Local Place Deeply
A narrative beginner guide to patch birding: choosing one local place, returning through seasons, noticing habitat, …