Inside Birding: Size and Shape

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14 жыл бұрын

Learn the most fundamental skill for identifying birds: recognizing them by size and shape. Birding experts Chris Wood and Jessie Barry show you how to compare different birds and employ your observations to make a confident ID.
Join them in the field to practice these techniques on common birds and learn how to distinguish similar species such as Hairy and Downy woodpeckers.
Watch more Inside Birding episodes from the Cornell Lab on these keys to bird identification:
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@farukbloch8212 5 жыл бұрын

I like birds

@katherineclemo9691 Жыл бұрын

All these videos on how to bird are wonderful. I have been birding for 20 years, but no one ever told me about some of these techniques. Thank you so much!!

@AbbieFox 14 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this terrific introductory video on birding. My third graders watched it, and they really got a good sense for how to carefully observe wild birds. Now, when we go birding, I hear them saying, "It's larger than a robin, but smaller than a crow." Awesome!

@markdezuba 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys

@sharons5880 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating and helpful...I now know how to differentiate these two woodpeckers..thanks

@peacecitizen1 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video Cornell LoO, your tip on comparing relative sizes between the Downy and Hairy Woodpecker helped make the correct identification this weekend! Logged my first Downy.

@udheeshthattekkadu8907 2 жыл бұрын

Happy Birding

@montgomerygarden 12 жыл бұрын

I think this is the third time I've watched this video... I want to have the information become ingrained. I have already "taken my Birding to another level"... Thank you two & Cornell Ornithology Lab & all the other behind the scenes folks that made these videos possible. I have greatly enjoyed all four videos... And posted all four on facebook... Again, THANKS!

@farukbloch8212 4 жыл бұрын

I like the birdwatching

@hariniraghavan8193 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tips

@danphenPhe 4 жыл бұрын

Great ID tips

@PatCrosby 13 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I can now tell the hairy's from the downy's on the feeder. Great insights.

@EugeneClewlow 4 жыл бұрын

Man. Great video editing technique. Very professional. Chunky? Is that the first impression people make of me. That I’m chunky?

@AnandA-cy5br 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the wonderful educational videos. The clarity with which you present is quite commendable. I am a budding birder and would appreciate if the name of the bird/s is mentioned on the screen itself making it easy for us to relate to and learn.

@Quasar502 13 жыл бұрын

I am already a better birder for having watched this video. Have Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers at the feeders all the time. You just made it easy to tell which. Thanks

@marcianorwood 11 жыл бұрын

This is so informative. I have learned a lot that will help me be a better birder.

@rogersearcy 5 жыл бұрын

thank for the great and helpful hints

@ESTUDIO7SIETE 4 жыл бұрын

thanks!!!!what a wonderful video

@4eversupersonicgirl 11 жыл бұрын

this was very helpful. thanks!

@daxamillion12gaming36 10 жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@Jackson-pm9vr 7 жыл бұрын

Great video quality

@richardavelino7383 2 жыл бұрын

So happy they got experts like Mark Hamill to help me in identifying birds. :) What Joker said to Batman: 2:34

@ethanmagnuson2988 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is sooooo helpful! Thank you so much

@SmokyMountainStarlight 6 жыл бұрын

Great video !!

@randyarchambault8865 9 жыл бұрын

Now I know how to tell the difference between downy and hairy at my suet feeders!

@minecraft7able 9 жыл бұрын

This is awesome

@fernandrums 4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome friends... Thanks. Question? What Binos were you using? 🤔

@piertiong 7 жыл бұрын

Helped me alot. All along i have been just watching blindly👍🏻

@montgomerygarden 12 жыл бұрын

I love this series, Inside Birding, and the two ornithologists... I have learned more, or rather, I can take what I already know and observe with a few questions... I am soo excited. In the past, I just tried to tell by color & markings- but those darn birds fly & flit so quickly. I have two bird feeders & all these little songbirds come... What are they? I still don't know, but I know I will be able to figure who they all are. A few have a longer tail, most of them are little round fatties...

@MartaniPanganSehat 7 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@cameonet1950 11 жыл бұрын

I just watched this series for the first time and learned SO much. Thank you!!! I do have one tiny request for future instructional videos like this: Would you please flash the name/species of birds on the screen as they are observed and announced? It would be very helpful to us beginners. Other than that, each video was OUTSTANDING! And thank you for my “Project FeederWatch” Bird-Watching Days calendar. Now I just need a better pair of binoculars. ♥

@katherineclemo9691 Жыл бұрын

i agree with you about flashing the name of the bird on the screen as they are shown. That thought ran through my head, too.

@dwizayekti 3 жыл бұрын

thank video

@senthilkumarselvam 3 жыл бұрын

wow! where did you go to see these birds? cardinals and cedar waxwings are rare!

@AllenBirdcam 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Is Cornell using these principles for birding AI?

@user-ht4gb2fw4e 11 жыл бұрын

I saw two new birds near my building. One is a small Jay with a kind of pastel reddish pink on it's head and tail. The middle is a greyish color. The othe bird is the size of a Grackle but it's light grey! And it's long tail has two white bars on the edges, and the wing's have thick white on the edges too. I think the changing climate brought them north.

@santoshbansode697 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for help,,,, with ❤️,,,,,,,,

@birbs4life174 7 жыл бұрын

Try differenting a Pacific Loon from a Red-throated at a thousand feet in air completely backlit.

@phonicdictation9856 5 жыл бұрын

i want to see and thank you in person

@phonicdictation9856 5 жыл бұрын

great

@phonicdictation9856 5 жыл бұрын

i saw a forest behind you

@sotyculler847 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. I enjoy bird watching but when i have my bionicalars. People think im spying i guess because im black

@cruzechevy3485 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, I enjoy birding too, I thought I was the only black person that like checking out birds, 😎.

@SilverwingStudios 5 жыл бұрын

Dude, that's awful. People are jerks. I'm sorry man.

@martinbennett7132 6 жыл бұрын

@christianromero6604 2 ай бұрын

Can someone help me...i have a cool lookin bird buulding a nest in my tree..but i cant tell if its a Hawk or a Falcon. I live in Wi.....

@GospelTruth37059 13 жыл бұрын

Can you help me identify this bird in TN? Its about the size of a sparrow I have been watching it when it comes on floor by feeder to eat which isnt often, only when it gets really really cold and snowy do i see it come out. It will than hop than scratch back with both fet at once. I call it my hoppin scratchin bird . It hops than scratches back with both feet in a fluid short motion. Ok..I Hope you can help me identify this bird with these eating characteristics. God bless

@senthilkumarselvam 3 жыл бұрын

the behavior you said sounds like a spotted towhee.

@christianromero6604 2 ай бұрын

Also does anyone on here know enough to help me indetify a bird in my tree...its either a falcon or hawk...please. Help..im and absolute beginner to this

@ahmedrami6538 10 жыл бұрын

ihope to be birding but i have langauge probleme . ineed help plz

@birdfanboi 5 жыл бұрын

I thought the dude was Jack McBrayer for second.

@gabrielraykin3686 4 жыл бұрын

birdie

@cruzechevy3485 5 жыл бұрын

Cardinals might be to common for other people, not for me tho.

@windfall0337 4 жыл бұрын

Thick

@gabrielraykin3686 4 жыл бұрын

funny bit=rdie

@monasingh-theo2859 Жыл бұрын

See early human...ladies took farming job in their home/premises...they started feeding food/water incoming birds...a continual energy energise process..

@2Ksand3Js Жыл бұрын

The non-hairy woodpecker is hairier than the hairy woodpecker😂🤣😅

@rinjinnoko 8 ай бұрын

So like, what if I know absolutely nothing and have nothing to compare with? I only know chickens

@Javaman92 Жыл бұрын

This is the fourth video in the playlist yet it seems obvious that it shouldn't be. How hard is it to make an educational playlist in the correct order?