Created by Cornell Lab of Ornithology. GOLD shares this video for educational purposes only, we are not affiliated with the creator.
Birdwatching is one of those rare hobbies that meets you exactly where you are, a window in your kitchen, a chair on your porch, a slow walk in a park. The birds come to you, and the longer you watch, the more you start to recognize who's who. It costs nothing to begin.
This short video from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology covers the very first skill every birder learns: telling birds apart by size and shape. Chris Wood and Jessie Barry, two of the country's best birders, walk through it slowly, with side-by-side examples and the kind of patient explanation that makes a complicated idea feel obvious in ten minutes.
You won't be an expert when it ends. But you'll know what to look at first, and that's where every birder starts, no matter their age.
