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Re: Birdwatchers and Ornithologists
[Re: jawbone]
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05/06/24 07:59 PM
05/06/24 07:59 PM
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whack-n-stack
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I'd start with something the Audubon Society puts out. I looked into that, and the most narrow result I could get was for the southeast. I was kind of looking for something more obscure or written by a professor at one of the colleges in Alabama.
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Re: Birdwatchers and Ornithologists
[Re: whack-n-stack]
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05/06/24 08:58 PM
05/06/24 08:58 PM
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south of hills, north of plain...
RareBreed
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south of hills, north of plain...
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I’m know you’d like to get her a book and please do. I’ll let someone else respond who may have experience with a good bird guide.
I’d also suggest you get her phone and download the Merlin Bird ID app. It’s free. She can take a pic and it will identify the bird for her.
She can also take audio sound and it will identify it that way as well.
It will give all kinds of info about that bird with numerous option to share, etc.
My 80 year old mother, who is almost iPhone illiterate, loves this app.
I know an app is not as personal as a book, but I bet she’d use it more often, get more day to day use out of it. Why not both? The app can just be an addition to a great book.
"I didnt mean to kill nobody, I just meant to shoot him once in the head and two times in the chest. Him dying was between he and the Lord."
Legendary bluesman R.L. Burnside
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Re: Birdwatchers and Ornithologists
[Re: whack-n-stack]
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05/06/24 09:16 PM
05/06/24 09:16 PM
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auburn
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As RareBreed said, the Merlin app is great. As to books, I’d get her a Peterson guide to birds of eastern US. It may have changed, as that was the first one I got probably 35 years ago. I almost studied ornithology for my graduate degrees. There are several good ones, but Peterson is a good start.
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.
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Re: Birdwatchers and Ornithologists
[Re: RareBreed]
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05/06/24 09:25 PM
05/06/24 09:25 PM
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Alabama
whack-n-stack
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I’m know you’d like to get her a book and please do. I’ll let someone else respond who may have experience with a good bird guide.
I’d also suggest you get her phone and download the Merlin Bird ID app. It’s free. She can take a pic and it will identify the bird for her.
She can also take audio sound and it will identify it that way as well.
It will give all kinds of info about that bird with numerous option to share, etc.
My 80 year old mother, who is almost iPhone illiterate, loves this app.
I know an app is not as personal as a book, but I bet she’d use it more often, get more day to day use out of it. Why not both? The app can just be an addition to a great book. That’s a good idea. I’ll write that in the card so I’ll remember to tell her about it.
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