1. Spots or stripes, Staccato or shriek
Spots or stripes, Staccato or shriek. Handy hints on how to become a better bird spotter.
Vocalisations by Fiona Hume
Plumage by Barry Baker, Michael Roberts, Margaret Lacey, Chris Tzaros.

4. What’s in store? 1. Birdwatching ethics 2. What you need
3. Handy identification hints

5. Birdwatching ethics
Principles of ethical birdwatching (Birdlife Australia):
1. Support the protection of birds and their habitat
2. Avoid stressing birds or exposing them to danger
3. Share birding finds
4. Get permission on private property

6. Avoid stress and danger to birds
1. Call play back
2. Flushing
3. Spotlighting
4. Photography

7. What do you need? 1. Patience
2. The gear that you don’t have to buy or borrow
3. The gear that you do have to buy or borrow

10. Eastern Crowned Warbler
Eastern Crowned Warbler. The warbler usually lives thousands of miles away in the forests of south-east Asia.
There have been only four sightings of the bird in Europe since 1843, and never one in the UK. The birdwatcher who spotted it first described the experience as like 'winning the World Cup'.

17. jizz
Jizz is a term used by birdwatchers to describe the overall impression or appearance of a bird garnered from such features as shape, posture, flying style or other habitual movements, size and colouration combined with voice, habitat and location.
The origin of the word is a mystery. There is a theory that it comes from the World War II air force acronym GISS for "General Impression of Size and Shape (of an aircraft)", but the birding term was first recorded earlier than that in More likely, jizz is a corruption of gestalt, a German word that roughly means form or shape, or more specifically from the word gist which has the same meaning.

18. What bird is that? Movement and flight Colour Song Habitat
Flap bounding or flap gliding
Colour
Obvious colour/ markings or subtle
Song
Obvious e.g. kookaburra or tricky
Habitat
Widespread or specialised

19. Movement and flight

20. colour

21. song / call

24. Oh I’M SUCH A PRETTY LITTLE THING

29. Lbj’s

42. Good luck !