BIRDER EXPERTISE LEVELS
Normal person: Look! A big, white bird!
Beginner bird watcher: Look! A white sea bird!
advanced beginner: Look! A seagull!
advanced birder: Look! A Herring Gull!
More advanced birder: Look! An American Herring Gull!
Very advanced birder: Look! A second-winter Herring Gull!
Photo: a first summer Bonaparte's Gull, taken near Cave Run Lake, KY..
OR a big white bird!
So that's what a bird looks like!!!
I love this site - I learn something new every day!!!!!!
Looks like an African Swallow to me.
An unladen African Swallow?
But can an African swallow carry a coconut?
@birdingnut if there are 2 of them only..
Cat level: SNACK!
I think the gull would snack on the cat. They are large.
I'm between 3 and 4 depending on the bird.
yep, me too.
Yeah..thanks! My Kentucky birding group sent me that link! I used to sometimes see yellow or orange House Finches at my feeders.
And to a racist fucking idiot who just spots this bird "white power"
I need a reference when I'm doing level six. But I'm a five without a book or computer.
I will hunt it down until I know. (I must know what that bird was!).
yes, i'm like that: i have to know what to call the bird - but am not level 5
I try to get a photo of any unknown species, then crop the photo and find a match.