What can I use to Identify Wild Birds?

Field Guides are an excellent way to look up and identify the Songbirds. Stokes Beginner's Guide To for Eastern and Stokes Beginner's Guide to Bird Feeding are two of the finest bird guide books to identify and start learning about wild birds. From the easy to use color coding to the more than 130 gorgeous full color photos in the Eastern, the Stokes guides are factually, visually, and organizationally superior to other books you can buy.

Are there APPS that Identify Birds?

Cornell Lab of Ornithology is an excellent birding resource that has an APP Merlin Bird ID . It a very easy to use interface and likes to gather info about the birds location and also can take a picture of the bird. It’s an almost universal feeling: the thrill of hearing a mysterious new bird song. And it’s usually followed up by the question: What was that bird? Merlin has expanded to cover more than 1,300 species across parts of the Americas, Europe (Western Palearctic), and India. “Each sound recording a user makes gets converted from a waveform to a spectrogram—a way to visualize the amplitude [volume], frequency [pitch], and duration of the sound,” Van Horn says. “So just like Merlin can identify a picture of a bird, it can now use this picture of a bird’s sound to make an ID. Merlin Bird ID offers four ways to identify a bird: by a sound, by a photo, by answering five questions about a bird you saw, or by exploring a list of the birds expected where you are.

Also BirdNet is an APP that allows you record and identify birdsong, With this APP you can record bird sounds with the "Mic" button. See a visualization of the recorded sounds in the spectrogram view. Send a portion of recording to the BirdNet servers in Germany to analyze and then receive their response.