ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the ways in which birders may try to share their abilities to identify birds by their song. A paramount, and probably the most effective way in which this is done is when a more proficient birder talks to a less proficient one about the typical characteristics of a bird song they are hearing. The chapter also explores how birders make use of expectations and 'candidate identifications' in order to produce accountably adequate propositions regarding just what it is they might be hearing. It is in these 'confrontations' that teachers of bird song recognition have to really showing the effectiveness of their art, and that novice's find it most difficult to apply their suggestions. So let me explicate the delicacies of the Blackcap/Garden Warbler contrast, and my own experiences in the field. The chapter explicates identification work in a leisure setting, as part of 'enjoying wildlife', but of course capacities acquired.
