Backyard Bird Count Bird Identification Tips Photos of 20 common backyard birds. Bird Identification Diagrams showing the parts of a bird plus much more. Field Identification From Birder's World magazine and Kenn Kaufman Learning to identify birds is easy if you become familiar with the birds in your yard. As you get better at bird identification, you can expand to birds in your home town. A field guide will help you attach a name to the birds you see.
Field guides are books with pictures and descriptions of the birds.
A field guide typically shows birds of just one country or even one part of a country. Here are some tips to make identifying birds easier. Is the bird fat or skinny, long or short. Look at each part of the bird. After you do all this then notice the main colors of the bird.