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Field guides to the question everyone actually asks. Each one covers what to look at first, in what order, and the lookalike pairs that catch people out. Written to be useful on a bad photo, because that is usually the photo you have.
A practical way to identify a bird from a photo or a glimpse: size and shape first, behaviour second, colour last. Includes the lookalike pairs that fool almost everyone.
How to identify a wild plant: read the leaf arrangement and leaf shape before the flower, then check the stem. Includes the toxic lookalikes worth knowing by sight.
How to identify a snake from a photo or a quick sighting: pattern, head shape, and where you were. Covers the harmless species most often mistaken for venomous ones.
Identify an insect or spider by counting legs and wings and reading body segments, then check the classic mimic pairs that fool people every summer.
Identify a wild mammal from a photo, a trail camera frame, or the tracks it left: size against a known animal, tail and ear shape, and gait.
Identify any plant, bird, or animal
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