Learning my birds
A boy's journal reveals why misidentified birds can be just as valuable as the ones you get right
Contributed by Pete Dunne
Published:
May 1, 2006
Contributing Editor Pete Dunne describes journals that he has been keeping since he was seven years old and the birds that he identified and misidentified while growing up in northern New Jersey, and he explains why he rejects the label of expert -- that is, a person who rarely makes mistakes. He makes mistakes all the time, Dunne writes, and he learns more from the birds he misidentifies than those he gets right.
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