hello fellow birders !

thrilled to find this group...
love the pic !
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jo

Welcome!

Yes, welcome Joli!
Glad to have you.

That "Birds, Birding & Books" invitation string in the Science Group chat was very interesting. I guess if you are an ornithologist you can talk over there :)

I want to mention another misunderstanding that people have about some birders (like me). I am asked all kinds of life history and behavioral questions about locally common birds and oftentimes I don't have a clue for an answer. I watch, tick, count and enjoy birds. Birding can be studied in so many ways and enjoyed at so many levels.

hi - how nice to have a group just for birders (not that I don't like ornithologists too...).

I watch birds in an obsessive yet incompetent way (hey, if only I had a memory, good vision, good hearing...), travel with birding as my excuse, do not study bird behavior except as part of my watching, but look up things I'm interested in - species, behavior, whatever. I seem to have acquired a bunch of field guides etc. along the way.

The first batch of books I added to LibraryThing was the bird-related collection, the second was houseplants, the third was general nature, which I think shows my priorities.

I was very fond of the Geobirds website, but it seems to be defunct. Does anyone know what happened or if there is a similar site I can be referred to? I had all my lifebirds on there and regretably that was the only place I saved them. :(

>6 varielle:

I use eBird to record my bird observations.

Thanks!