Ornithology

Introduction
so basically you wanna all of the birds like super fast or else you'll be slow and score bad. a good way to learn all the birds is to study.

basically everyone uses allaboutbirds from the cornell lab which is a good-enough resource, but the real pros use this secretive and overpowered resource that's called Professor Noggin's Birds of North America. It has great detail and is totally worth the $13.

another thing is you wanna like take notes about all the birds so you know about all the birds. if you dont know everything about all the birds on the list then you'll score bad. if you cant tell me what the smallest bird in the world's wingspan and scientific name then get out of here, your chance at succeeding is a joke.

here i train winners, so if you are not a winner then leave.

PSA to all the moderators i intend to actually add good stuff, so please dont ban me just because of this joke intro.

THANKS

Actual Introduction
For the 2019-2020 SciOly Season, Ornithology rotated in to replace Herpetology as the quintessential ID event (nobody likes you fossils). Ornithology is the study of birds, and for the competition the SO rules packet provides a National Bird List which includes the common names of all 159 species (76 on the first page, 83 on the second) that can and will be tested at SO competitions. However, there are exceptions of altered regional and state lists including the NYS and SoCal lists. Be sure to check your regional and state SciOly Websites in case there are altered lists which may include a few extra species.

Ornithology for the 2019-2020 season allowed the participants to bring with them one 2" or smaller 3-ring binder containing info, as well as a field guide of the participants' choice. There are no guidelines provided to determine what does and does not constitute as an Ornithological field guide, so use common sense. Additionally, you were also permitted to bring one unaltered copy of the Bird List being utilized at the competition you are currently at.

The allowed format for this competition for this event is either a timed PowerPoint slide presentation(which generally has ~20 slides and allots 2-4min/slide, most commonly 2:30min/slide), or timed stations(which generally also has ~20 physical stations, but the time limit allotted for each station tends to be shorter than PowerPoint presentation when you factor in the time it takes for all teams to rotate stations). The timed physical stations are usually a mix of sheets of paper that heavily resemble the types of slides on a PowerPoint formatted test,