Short, practical guides to identifying birds and getting more out of every outing. Then put them into practice with a location-based quiz on the birds near you.
The five-signal checklist experienced birders use — size and shape, behavior, habitat, field marks, and probability — and how to make it reflex.
What hotspots are, how to find the most active ones near you, and how to prep for a trip by studying a spot's recent sightings.
Our methodology: turning recent eBird sightings into location-based ID practice, the data behind it, and our approach to learning.
A birder's guide to Costa Rica: target species (resplendent quetzal, scarlet macaw), the best areas to bird, year-round …
A birder's guide to Panama: the famous Canopy Tower and Pipeline Road, western highland specialties, when to go, and a q…
A birder's guide to Ecuador: the Mindo cloud forest and Andean slopes, hummingbird and tanager diversity, Amazon options…
A birder's guide to Colombia, the country with more bird species than any other: the best regions, endemic hotspots, whe…
A birder's guide to Belize: accessible tropical birding in English, from lowland rainforest and the Maya Mountains to co…
A birder's guide to Trinidad and Tobago: South American birds on an easy Caribbean island, the famous Asa Wright Nature …
A birder's guide to Southeast Arizona: the sky-island canyons (Madera, Ramsey, Cave Creek), Mexican specialties and humm…
A birder's guide to the Lower Rio Grande Valley: the U.S. home of Green Jay, Great Kiskadee, and other Mexican border sp…
A birder's guide to Cape May, New Jersey — one of North America's greatest migration hotspots: hawk and songbird flights…
A birder's guide to Point Reyes National Seashore near San Francisco: one of North America's top rarity traps, seabirds,…
A birder's guide to Monterey Bay, California: world-class pelagic trips for albatrosses and shearwaters, rocky-shore bir…
A birder's guide to Magee Marsh and the western Lake Erie marshes — the 'Warbler Capital of the World' during spring mig…
A birder's guide to Everglades National Park and South Florida: spectacular dry-season wading-bird concentrations, tropi…
A birder's guide to Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico: the winter spectacle of Sandhill Cranes and …
Where to go birding near Gilbert, Arizona: top hotspots (starting with the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch), Sonoran De…
Where to go birding near Austin, Texas: Hill Country hotspots, the endangered Golden-cheeked Warbler, wetlands and lakes…
Where to go birding near Seattle, Washington: Puget Sound waterbirds, lowland forest, wetlands, birds by season, and whe…
Where to go birding near San Diego, California — one of the most species-rich counties in the U.S.: coast, lagoons, moun…
Where to go birding near Denver, Colorado: plains reservoirs, foothills, and the edge of the Rockies, birds by season, a…
Where to go birding near Portland, Oregon: Willamette Valley wetlands, forest, and river, birds by season, and when to v…