A field guide can help you attach a name to most of 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 region of a country. You are about to discover that birders seem to have given a name to every inch on a bird's body. 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.