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Back Yard Birding
by Ken Fuller
Birding (also known as bird watching) is an increasingly popular pass time. birding begins with matching observed birds with their names in a field guide. Then advances to ethology (study of behavior) and ecology (interaction with other living things and with the physical environment). It is not necessary to travel to odd places or go to great expense in order to study a large variety of living birds in their normal habitats. I find many birds in my own yard. Of course different yards will have different species.
By making a habit of working quietly, or sitting reading etc. in the
yard, and avoiding rapid motions which might seem threatening, I have
been accepted as being safe by local birds. So they can easily be
observed going about their normal business while I go about mine.
Here is my collection from a Southern California, suburban yard.
Each of the species included here is one I have identified from my own
yard, some just flying over. However some of the photographs were
taken other places, simply because that is where I was able to get the
better shot. I make no claim to expertise as a taxonomist, I just
do
my best. If you think you have detected an error in
classification, please include references with your correction so I can
look it up.
[Science
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