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Birding & Ornithology

From your backyard feeder to a Big Year. Bird anatomy (feathers, wings, beaks), identifying birds by field marks & GISS, birding by ear (songs & calls), binoculars & spotting scopes, field guides (Sibley, Peterson, eBird), backyard birds (sparrows, finches, cardinals), songbirds (warblers, thrushes, wrens), raptors (hawks, eagles, falcons), owls, waterfowl, shorebirds, seabirds (albatrosses, petrels), wading birds (herons, egrets, storks), hummingbirds, woodpeckers, corvids (crows, ravens, jays), parrots & macaws, penguins, migration mysteries & the flyways, courtship & nesting, bird feeders & houses, bird photography, hawkwatching, citizen science (eBird, Christmas Bird Count), Roger Tory Peterson, David Sibley, the Cornell Lab, extinct birds (Dodo, Passenger Pigeon), conservation success stories (Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcon), world hotspots (Costa Rica, Ecuador, India), and the birders' code. 35 units, 525 lessons.