Mini-Tutorial: Basic Bird Identification

If you’re a beginning birder and want to learn how to look at a bird to remember what you’re seeing, look no further! On the DBC Education Channel, Denis Kania reviews basic bird identification skills, with plenty of useful images to demonstrate his points, in a new video.

Denis’s first recommendation: use field guides to prepare for birds that could be in your area. This tutorial will take through some basic identification strategies once you’re out in the field, including:

  • Bird topography
  • Relative size
  • Bill structure and color
  • Overall body structure
  • Color patterns
  • Behavior

Basic Bird Identification is one of a series of mini-tutorials designed to help the beginning birder develop basic birding skills. In addition, DBC’s Education library contains mini-tutorials that do a deep dive on bird topography, how to use binoculars, birding by ear, making the most of the DuPage County checklist of birds, how to point out a bird to others, and more.

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