Subject: [Tweeters] Learn bird ID with groups of birds: hints from
Date: Sep 14 17:42:20 2010
From: Guttman,Burt - GuttmanB at evergreen.edu


Funny you should mention that! Those who are familiar with my book Finding Your Wings, or who have attended one of my workshop-talks about how to get started in birding--I did two of them at the Edmonds birding festival on Saturday--will know that my birding strategy is threefold, and one leg of the strategy is to learn categories of birds before (or at least along with) learning to identify the species within the category.

Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505 guttmanb at evergreen.edu <mailto:guttmanb at evergreen.edu>
Home: 7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503

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Subject: [Tweeters] Learn bird ID with groups of birds: hints from aesthetic intuitive learning



From

<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html>

> These findings extend well beyond math, even to aesthetic intuitive
> learning. In an experiment published last monthin the journal
> Psychology and Aging, researchers found that college students and
> adults of retirement age were better able to distinguish the
> painting styles of 12 unfamiliar artists after viewing mixed
> collections (assortments, including works from all 12) than after
> viewing a dozen works from one artist, all together, then moving on
> to the next painter.

<http://www.williams.edu/Psychology/Faculty/Kornell/Publications/Kornell.Castel.Eich.Bjork.2010.pdf
>

Something to keep in mind when trying to learn some bird ID: work in
families (or bigger chunks) not individual birds.
--
Kevin Purcell (Seattle, WA)
kevinpurcell at pobox.com
http://kevinpurcell.posterous.com <http://kevinpurcell.posterous.com/>
http://twitter.com/kevinpurcell

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