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Understanding Bird Migration from Birding Your Best Life
An example of one of the monthly workshops we do on the subscription site (Birding Your Best Life). Upcoming are workshops on winter finches, understanding geographic variation, while the site itself has courses on raptors, gulls as well as a communication forum and more content all the time. Join here - www.birdingyourbestlife.com/
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Gull watching in Choshi, Japan. Scope eye view.
Просмотров 2367 месяцев назад
A video of what you see when scanning the gull flocks in Choshi, Japan.
Juvenile Gull Primaries!
Просмотров 362Год назад
A multi-hour gull ID class is available on my subscription site (birdingyourbestlife.com). If you like this video, do subscribe to this channel. If you want more, please join Birding Your Best Life! This summarizes how juvenile primaries in gulls differ from older age classes, and how to use this in the field to age a bird. This can be very useful in paler gull species, and in odd looking indiv...
Lightroom Keywording Intro
Просмотров 193Год назад
How do you organize tens of thousands of bird photos? Some people use folders, and that works. But how about if you want to find some really specific thing? What I do is use Photoshop Lightroom's database and keywording function. It is easy to get going, and to use. I give a short view of how it works for me, and what my keyword list looks like. For a more comprehensive take on this - subscribe...
Identification of Vega Gull Adults - A North American Perspective.
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This is a half an hour long video that details what adult Vega Gulls (Larus argentatus vegae) look like based on photos from February in Japan. The keys are eye color, mantle tone, wing pattern differences and so forth. Detail is given on how the wing pattern differs, and what the pitfalls may be for a North American observer looking for a vagrant Vega Gull here.
Dowitchers Voice basics
Просмотров 2312 года назад
Hey there, this is a little section of my Dowitcher Master Class I have up on www.birdingyourbestlife.com, my membership site. The class details everything from voice, to various plumages, geographic variation, habitat choice and all sorts of other tidbits helpful for identifying dowitchers. I think it may just about be the most complete summary there is out there on this topic. Please join our...
Downy Hairy woodpecker Identification.
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A quick, short video on what to look for when separating a Downy from a Hairy Woodpecker. The longer version with more details, vocalizations, geographic variation and more is accessible on our membership site - www.birdingyourbestlife.com/ BTW - my friend Louis Bevier corrected this: "Why is Louis writing to you. Well, Louis Agassiz Fuertes had a Puerto Rican father, who named his son after a ...
Elaenia Identification
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.2 года назад
A video on how to separate "Chilean" White-crested and Small-billed elaenias, and how this is relevant to the Oct 26, 2021 bird banded in Tadoussac, Quebec. For Bird ID workshops visit - www.alvarosadventures.com/events.html For more information on the Observatoire d'Oiseaux de Tadoussac, visit www.explosnature.ca/oot/
Now you're cooking with grease
Просмотров 1662 года назад
A video teaser from our upcoming 9th episode of the Life List podcast. Please have a listen - www.lifelistpodcast.com/ Its fun, informative, a little goofy here and there. We talk about birds, birding, birders, our history, culture, and also what birds we have been seeing recently. From backyard birding to international adventures, we talk about it all.
Hearing Loss - before the implant
Просмотров 8283 года назад
Four years ago I suffered sudden hearing loss (Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss - SSNHL), it is a mystery what caused it, some think it may be viral or that it could have multiple causes. As a birder, this has been quite frankly a major problem, and was initially quite devastating. Yet tomorrow I embark on a new journey, I will receive a Cochlear Implant! This set of videos is to teach about t...
How to Learn Bird Shapes
Просмотров 8923 года назад
This is a video showing how you focus on bird shapes, in order to improve your ability to learn shape. Practicing these techniques, in the backyard or near home, will greatly improve your ability to identify birds in the field.
How to use eBird photos
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.3 года назад
eBird has a curated set of photos, where you can search by species, locations and dates. I quickly show you how you can use these photos and filters to begin understanding geographic variation or even to study up on identification problems. For information on birding workshops - do visit our events page. www.alvarosadventures.com/events.html
Live Gull watching, Dec 21, 2020 Half Moon Bay, California
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Live gull watching video, with juvenile Glaucous Gull, Thayer's Gull, Herring Gull, California Gull, Western Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, and hybrids.
Live Gull Watching - Half Moon Bay, California Dec 11, 2020
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This was an experiment, panning along and talking over the gulls seen in the local flock in Half Moon Bay, California. It was well received, and hopefully you will find it useful. There are multiple hybrid birds noted here, a common situation in winter in Central California
Known age Western Gulls
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.3 года назад
One of a kind, you cannot find this info anywhere! This is a summary of what known age Western Gulls look like. They are known age as they were banded on the Farallon Islands by biologists from Point Blue Conservation Science. Fortunately many of them show up locally here in the beaches of Half Moon Bay, California and over the years I have been able to photograph a number of them. This collect...
West Coast (California) Pelagic Birding
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West Coast (California) Pelagic Birding
Yellowlegs identification - which one is it? Greater or Lesser yellowlegs?
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Yellowlegs identification - which one is it? Greater or Lesser yellowlegs?
Very helpful....liked and subscribed ;)
🤯 Mind blowing! Thank you for the great tips.
I learned good tips. Thanks. Water birds are hard for me and I’m making it my goal to get better with them. 👍
Look up the article "Why are Yellowlegs hard to identify" by David Sibley. In it he comments... This is the same image seen at the start of this post. It shows the shortest-billed Greater (upper) and a long-billed Lesser (lower), with head sizes matched to emphasize relative bill length. In this case the relative bill length is essentially identical.
note that this image was made by Peter Burke. It is for a book project, and not the same image as that from David Sibley.
Yes. I realize that. Look up the article i mentioned where Sibly illustrates that the bill length of the lesser and greater yellowlegs can overlap due to individual variation. @@birdingyourbestlife6877
hey. Wow its so windy. Great observation. Greets Stefan
Oh my gosh this is badass! Love it
Thank you ! The bill length and forehead tips are essential !!
I love this video so much, I need to go on a pelagic now! The fact that storm petrels breed in deserts and possibly in the high Andes is genuinely insane. I've not felt this excited in a while haha.
Love it! Excellent organization! Inspired to work on this type of hierarchy this week. I especially love how you organized your Gull section. Their plumage molts are amazing!! Thanks for sharing!!
thanks! I am glad you found it useful.
Great video, thanks for the wonderful info, I think I saw a couple birds that looks just like this one here in NC today, im wondering if ther lost.
Thanks so much for sharing such a wonderful video 🐦👍
this is awesome. great video and great concept, very helpful!!
A couple of minor corrections. Most Western Gull chicks hatch in early June, so you need to add about a month to the ages in the first year. Can you tell males and females apart, because i am pretty good at this?
Great to see a Western Gull expert looking in here! Males vs females when they are together I can manage, but in a flock, I don't have much confidence. Point taken on the hatching in June!
One more thing, I am rewriting the species account, would you mind if I added a link to your site? You are also an expert
@@raymondpierotti8414 That would be fantastic. I am lucky to live where I can see these banded WEGU, if the video can help others understand the process of ageing. Well, the more the merrier! Thanks.
Great video ... more gull videos please! I'm just starting to get into them more seriously. Cheers
Yay! Not bored at all! Thanks!!
Fantastic!
great video
Thanks!
Thank you so much for making this video. I also have SSHL (totally deaf in one ear). I am an avid birder who leads trips for my county and this has obviously deeply impaired my abilities. I would love to hear an update on how the cochlear implant is working for you. I specifically want to know if you can localize sound and if you can still identify birds by sound with your deaf ear. Does it sound like the bird or a different version of it?
Hi there. The implant has been great. The sound you get is simple, mechanical sounding, and lacks richness. However, your brain patches it together pretty well and I now can hear where sound is coming from. It is not as acute to location as before, and helps if it is a loud sound, but I now shift my head when a sound comes in, and my overall hearing abilities in the field are much better. I still identify birds with my good ear, and that means that they have to be nearer than pre- hearing loss, but it works. The sound is normal, the brain puts it all together amazingly well after a few months of re-wiring of your neural networks. Overall my hearing is now 3-D rather than 2-D, and when I take off the implant, it radically changes how I hear. Like being underwater vs out in the world. It has limitations, but it has been great. I recovered about 30% of speach recognition in difficult situations (background sounds/talking), and adjust where I sit at restaurants and bars, but have no problem there. My tinnitus down as well, it is still there, but not as bad as before.
Saw this video and then saw 2 dowitchers today that triggered a rare bird alert. Probably not so much rare as late. Sure enough, when they flew (not off, just a little ways) they called and were short-billed. Also, am just recently using Merlin for sounds, which is incredibly useful and so I can see the spectogram confirmation.
Great info! I went back through some photos I have taken the last couple years to see if I could do a better job at identifying. I have one that I thought was a lesser but has that neck bulge going on. The bill is just barely longer than the head so it really trips me up. There must be some variation in bill length?
I would say that bill length is more important than the neck bulge. Is the photo somewhere?
I'm trying to sort out gulls on Vancouver Island and found this very helpful.
thanks
Nifty, indeed! Thanks!
Great commentary!
While going through photos in eBird, if you see anything misidentified, click "report" in the bottom right and you can then flag the observation for a local reviewer to review.
Thanks so much for this detailed video regarding the Yellowlegs. I was able to identify the bird I photographed today using your identifiers, and now have the info needed to differentiate between the two when out in the field again. Thanks again!
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This is helpful identification video. We don't have them here in Florida but still good to learn something new. Thanks.
Excellent video Alvaro! I usually don't carry a camera and can't really see the primary formula, but beyond the third wing bar, I find that the "string of droplets" vs solid look to the wing bars, the head profile, and the cheek/throat color delineation that Dan mentions are a pretty solid combo. While I'm certain that I've mis-ID'd more than my share of Elaenias, I can't recall having seen one of this pair well, seen multiple of these features, then being surprised by the vocalization. I find Small-billed vs. Olivaceous much more challenging and usually don't have much/any confidence on non-vocal birds.
Solid analysis. Great podcast!
Great video Al. I would add that Small-billed also seem to have stronger contrast between the pale gray throat and the green-brown auriculars, which in combination with the more rounded head gives them a more "Empid-like" facial expression, which I see in the Tadoussac bird. Glad to hear that there is some potential material taken from the bird to see if it keys out genetically to one or the other... looking forward to hear if that agrees with this ID!
Thanks Dan! I was contemplating that Small-billed also tends to have a more extensive yellow wash to the base of the bill, extending to gape. Giving them a "juvie" look. Check out if this is something that is somewhat reliable, or at least a tendency?
Good point Dan. This is one of the things that I find easier to use in the field when the birds overlap and both are expected. I don't know if it's really reliable but once I started noticing it, it is as evident as the crest to my eye, and for birds seen from below, it's often the first clue I get.
Thanks for putting this together so quickly. Can't wait to go birding with you!
Thanks so much Alvaro. Super helpful for our Beachwatch surveys!
This is an awesome resource Alvaro, thank you! I hope you do more of this in the future. 👍 Oh, and I hope your procedure went well the other day! Take care.
I knew you couldn't tell thedirection of a sound, but I didn't realize everything was the same volume. Lockdown might have been I been a bit restful for you. Excited for you.
Good luck mate
Wow, my hearing loss experience is so very similar to yours. In fact I did the same thing with my phone-I thought something was wrong with my phone!! It’s been 3 years since I lost the hearing in my left ear. I love birding, but identifying birds by sounds is so hard. I use the CROS, but cochlear implant has been recommended for me. I will definitely be following you and I’m wishing you the best of luck with your surgery!!
Best wishes! Looking forward to the next post!! 🙏🏻💞
Wishing you luck, Al! Somehow, this story brought this to mind: ruclips.net/video/Z5ZklF5CKMc/видео.html
which brings up the question, why are they called Cochlearius?
Alls I'm saying is, be sure they're not installing Boat-bills im your ear!
🦅🦅❤️ Love gulls!
nice video
Thank you!
Such a helpful video, thanks for doing these!!!
Thanks so much!
Great job, shape is king! Really nice video too. What program are you using that allows your face in a circle like that and gives you the high res powerpoint-like presentation?
The software is called Loom. Very easy to use.
Loved this!
Thanks for this video! I learn some new key things to look for; bulge & angle of neck I never knew.
Very useful and informative - Thanks.
In a sparrows class and studying Fox Sparrows and subspecies. This is an absolutely fantastic way to study them. Thank you so much!
Thank you Alvaro! It is very interesting way to use e-bird. Very helpful!
Good tips, it's really helpful.
Excellent and can only get better from here. Nice work Alvaro
I'm from the east coast so it's interesting to see all the western gulls. Thank you for detailed explanation 🙂 I learned a lot of your video. When I go to California now I know what field marks to look. Also, I had no idea there are so many hybrids.
It internally kills me everyday "It's a wegu!" "no look at the head streaks, gwgu x wegu" "no! that is that weird time where wegu's gets streaks even when they're adults" "actually what if it is a backcross" "wtf?!"
Thank you, Alvaro. It's great (and rare) to deal with information that is absolute.