Birds of Feather/Ornithology

[soobsession]

does anyone think it's gonna be hard to study bird calls?

Not really. There are a lot with distinct sounds [loons, grebes, mergansers, etc... (sorry, i cant spell)]. I think they'll be A LOT easier than frog calls.

To study bird calls I went to borders + bought a bird book w/ bird calls + started to listen to them.
Also, you can always go birdwatching around your neighborhood.

yeah...i can already tell a when a female cardinal is at my birdfeeder without looking. it chirps like crazy!

[Kwalks]

I don't think that bird calls will be too hard if you can remember what they sound like. With frog calls we made a list of the calls with labels like:
Southern Leopard frog- witches laughing

And with the lists that people have posted, will they only ask questions on calls for the birds that have the note next to them?

[Mr. Cool]

Well, if they can give olivine and epidote, and bornite and chalcopyrite on the same mineral list, then their evilness knows no bounds.
Seriously, those pairs of minerals were nearly indistinguishable.

Yeah, but of course if they had ever had real crystalline olivine and epidote, it would have been easier.

[gneissisnice]

Well, if they can give olivine and epidote, and bornite and chalcopyrite on the same mineral list, then their evilness knows no bounds.
Seriously, those pairs of minerals were nearly indistinguishable.

Yeah, but of course if they had ever had real crystalline olivine and epidote, it would have been easier.

But of course, we always got the green mineral that looked like either one. The only way I could tell them apart was that olivine looked sugary sometimes (my coach told me that, i didnt make it up), and that epidote sometimes occurs with hornblende and rhodonite.
But Bornite and Chalcopyrite were the worst. I just kinda said that bornite was more purple, and left it at that.

[sewforlife]

does anyone think it's gonna be hard to study bird calls?

Not really. There are a lot with distinct sounds [loons, grebes, mergansers, etc... (sorry, i cant spell)]. I think they'll be A LOT easier than frog calls.

To study bird calls I went to borders + bought a bird book w/ bird calls + started to listen to them.
Also, you can always go birdwatching around your neighborhood.

i think if i really wanted to get into the hang of studying, I'll record some songs, and put them onto my ipod. yes!

[Flavorflav]

It's really going to depend on the writer. There are some really easy ones, but most of them could be easy or ridiculously hard. Many songbirds have more than one song - sometimes as many as ten, and some of them sound a lot like the most common songs of another species. Basically all of the non-passerines should be easy, but the passerines are (IMO) potentially much, much harder than the frogs.

[soobsession]

does anyone think it's gonna be hard to study bird calls?

Not really. There are a lot with distinct sounds [loons, grebes, mergansers, etc... (sorry, i cant spell)]. I think they'll be A LOT easier than frog calls.

To study bird calls I went to borders + bought a bird book w/ bird calls + started to listen to them.
Also, you can always go birdwatching around your neighborhood.

i think if i really wanted to get into the hang of studying, I'll record some songs, and put them onto my ipod. yes!

>.>
<.<
-runs to the store to get an ipod.-

[crabnebula143]

How do you distinguish mexican crows from american crows??
Thnx.

[soobsession]

American Crow:


Mexican Crow:


mexican crows are skinnier? i think their beaks may be longer...and whiter unless thats a glare...
their feathers look kinda different too

[croman74]

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