Bird ID Skills

Project FeederWatch Why do Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers look so similar when they aren’t close relatives?

Living Bird Magazine ID Tips for Raptor-Watching Season: Use Tail and Wing Shape

Living Bird Magazine Where's the White? A Simple Question can be the Key in Waterfowl ID

Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak From a Female Purple Finch

eBird Identifying hybrid Mottled Ducks

Great Backyard Bird Count Cooper's and Sharp-shinned Hawks

Great Backyard Bird Count Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers

Great Backyard Bird Count Woodpeckers With Red Heads

Great Backyard Bird Count Identifying Doves

Great Backyard Bird Count Is It a Black-capped or Carolina Chickadee?

Great Backyard Bird Count Which Red Finch Is It?

Great Backyard Bird Count Identifying Some Common Sparrows

Simple Steps for Identifying Confusing Brown Ducks—Females and Otherwise

eBird Identifying Bay-breasted and Blackpoll Warblers

ID Workshop: Use 4 Basic Keys Plus Migration Timing to Sort Out Your Thrushes

Great New Tips for Identifying Warblers—From the Authors of The Warbler Guide

eBird Sagebrush and Bell's Sparrows

Project FeederWatch American or Lesser? Take the Goldfinch Quiz!

Project FeederWatch Tricky Bird IDs

Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Downy Woodpecker From a Hairy Woodpecker

Project FeederWatch How to Identify the 3 Red Finches: Cassin's, House, and Purple

Project FeederWatch How to Identify Common Doves

Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Black-capped Chickadee from a Carolina Chickadee

Project FeederWatch How to Tell a Sharp-shinned Hawk from a Cooper's Hawk

Project FeederWatch How to Tell an American Tree Sparrow from a Chipping Sparrow

Project FeederWatch Download FeederWatch Bird ID Posters

eBird ID Tips for Tricky Finches

Similar Species: Crows and Ravens

eBird Grackles—Are You Getting Them Right?

eBird Confusing Flycatchers? Use Migration Timing to Your Advantage!

eBird Identification Pitfalls—Crows and Ravens

eBird Use Range Maps to Identify Your Chickadees