Me too.
I volunteered at Audubon for a decade. I've got all the books, charts. I hike and camp. I can't identify rocks, birds, fish, trees, clouds, etc to save my life.
Square peg, round hole.
I volunteered at Audubon for a decade. I've got all the books, charts. I hike and camp. I can't identify rocks, birds, fish, trees, clouds, etc to save my life.
Square peg, round hole.
What I'm realizing is that it takes active participation and interest in indentifying things to really learn their names and their histories, not just a passing interest.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has a site [1] and an app that is amazing for identifying birds. My favorite feature is how it also lists birds that are similar, which makes it a lot easier to find the specific bird you're looking for. I then compare visual information with the auditory information of the birds calls to make a concrete identification.