Ornithology B/C

[oh joy]

r u at SO rite now, crabneb?

[crabnebula143]

noo...
I'm at home,
I have a bio test
and a bunch of other tests, oh joy...
just ask me on the BC forum XD

[oh joy]

oh, cuz if u were, i thought you'd ask someone about the bird rules. The things we were wondering about before, the tabbing and print stuff
ill just ask someone else tomorrow

[Paradox21]

I am still waiting on a clarification for what a tab is defined as. But I sent in a clarification asking if we could write on the tabs. The response was: "Yes, but there will not be a lot of room to write on them, tabs are small, not post it size."

[twmurphso]

i know the recommended guide is peterson. but itz All identification. Is there a more information guide i could get lik Smithsonian, Nat Geo, or Audobon? Which is best? But the peterson has ALL the birds, and if the others dont and i cant cram then on the sheet, it'll just get beyond annoying.

[Paradox21]

i know the recommended guide is peterson. but itz All identification. Is there a more information guide i could get lik Smithsonian, Nat Geo, or Audobon? Which is best? But the peterson has ALL the birds, and if the others dont and i cant cram then on the sheet, it'll just get beyond annoying.

Well it's not ALL identification. I am most likely using the Smithsonian because my state has a greatly reduced bird list that eliminated all but one of the birds not in the book. But if you can not get all of the missing birds pictures onto your cheat sheet, you should definitely use the Peterson. The Peterson is also a very new addition so will have the most accurate information. I am essentially combining the Peterson, Sibley and possibly Nat Geo into my smithsonian so hopefully I will have all of the info combined into one field guide.

[twmurphso]

hmm....reduced list? i thought they were all the same....but anywayyy (well, im division b btw)
the peterson does have all the birds, but wat bout the others, do they hav MOST or a HIGH PERCENTAGE of birds?
they have no size limit on the guide so maybe ill bring the fattest one i could find.

[Celeste]

The DK Smithsonian one has a ton of information about each individual species, but it doesn't have plates or anything that makes identifying east. The Peterson is the opposite, it makes it super easy to identify a specimen, but it doesn't have a ton of information once you know what it is. Grr, I wish we could have two field guides all the time, instead of just at Nationals!

[twmurphso]

well, if the smithsonian has ALL of the birds, i would rather get that. Plus, theres not a lot (well less than 50% they say) of species-genus identification, mostly characteristics and random things pertaining to the overall group. That would be much harder to fit on a page.
i also found really informational books lik the Sibley nd Audobon which are huge but they're not FIELD GUIDES used for scouting, but instead they're lik, encyclopedias.
Does it have to be a FIELD GUIDE, or can the book just be a guide to birds....?

[Paradox21]

well, if the smithsonian has ALL of the birds, i would rather get that. Plus, theres not a lot (well less than 50% they say) of species-genus identification, mostly characteristics and random things pertaining to the overall group. That would be much harder to fit on a page.
i also found really informational books lik the Sibley nd Audobon which are huge but they're not FIELD GUIDES used for scouting, but instead they're lik, encyclopedias.
Does it have to be a FIELD GUIDE, or can the book just be a guide to birds....?

I don't think encycopedias are allowed. I will probably devote a good portion of my cheat sheet to identification, because while less than half of the test is on IDing, if you mis-ID something, it is very unlikely you will get the other questions about it correct.