CEAP birds - cardinalids, blackbirds, and finches

This video consists of one segment of the CEAP Avian Training Video Series - a tool for CEAP technicians to improve their North American bird identification skills.This video is strictly for educational purposes. The photos within were not taken by myself and I do not claim them as my own. Moreover, the audio recordings are simply played from the Sibley Guide to Birds of North America iPhone app. This video is intended to serve as a guiding tool to those withing to learn common birds which occur within early-successional forest communities of the Northeastern U.S.
This video is meant as a supplement to your established bird ID study regime -this is not a replacement. If you have questions, please email me (D.J.) with further questions. Also remember that, while studying can go a long way toward learning birds, there exists no substitute for time in the field so get outside and observe birds as part of your field season preparation. Happy birding!

[@westonsmith4572]

Great video. Thank you for posting. One fix to consider: the feather shafts on the Pine Siskin are probably more yellow - not white as mentioned in the video. Cheers from Canada

[@philandtrish]

I had a Baltimore Oriole drinking from my hummer feeders this spring and also landing at my deck rail platform feeder (I put some oranges and grape jelly in it at the time) - I even had an inquisitive one land in our lilac tree and check me out while I was sitting on the deck. I thought this was very unusual behavior for them but of course I welcomed it (it was actually the first time I have seen one since I was a kid growing up in rural northwest Illinois). It was very fleeting but so cool. By the way, we live in an area of Aurora, Illinois surrounded by wetlands and a forest preserve to the east and south of us and Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) across the street to the north, which is also a wildlife and prairie sanctuary.