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Bird Watching Lesson - Irene Silvernail

We learned how to Identify birds and several research techniques that are useful in many different scenarios. For example, we learned how to use certain characteristics to be able to narrow down the options of your search. There is an app called Merlin that is an amazing and wonderful tool that utilizes the 4 characteristics of identifying birds and is able to find possible matches. From there, you look at the pictures and figure out which matches the bird you saw. It is faster than an index in book form, and is just as reliable. This allows everyone to be able to quickly and efficiently identify birds. We also became more familiar with the local species of birds. After learning the four characteristics that most birds can be classified by (shape and size, color, behavior, and habitat) we got to practice. We classified one bird as if we had seen it in its natural habitat and several others from still photos. It was a lot of fun, and now I know more about birds and how to identify them.