Few things are more relaxing than taking an early morning walk
along a wooded road. Learning to identify the birds you see can
make it fun and interesting, too. Identifying Wild Birds Few
things are more relaxing than taking an early morning walk along
a wooded road, listening to the birdsong around you. If you are
like many of us, you may enjoy looking for different birds to
add to your “life list,” that mysterious, never-ending document
that many “birders” maintain. As you are daydreaming, you notice
a sudden flash of red come bursting out of the trees next to
you. The bird flies across your path and settles high in a tree
in the distance. Safely out of your reach, it sits upright on a
branch and begins to sing. What kind of bird was it? All you can
see clearly at this point is the color, a bright solid red. Even
without a pair of binoculars, you might be able to identify it.
When you’re trying to identify a bird in the wild, it’s much
easier to do when you have a lot of information about it. But
even if yo