Click this button to compare two birds side-by-side.
You may use this feature to compare photos of males and females of the same species or photos of similar species. But you may also compare range maps, abundance maps and even sounds for two separate species!
At the top of each image there are two drop-down boxes. In the first box you may select a species. Scroll down until you find the species you want and then click the name. Or simply start typing a bird’s name in the box. Then use the second drop-down box to select the media item you want. You can select any of the images, the range map, abundance map or even the sound. Try it now -- select a male Northern Cardinal in one image and a female Northern Cardinal in the other.
The compare feature is very helpful when you want to look at two similar species at the same time. You can then look at the range maps side-by-side after you have looked at the photos.
If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can use the scroll wheel to scroll from one species to the next or from one media image to the next. To scroll from species to species, left-click on the bird’s name in the left drop-down box and then use the wheel to move up or down the list of birds. To scroll through all the media for one species, left-click on the right drop-down box that lists the media for each species and then use the wheel to move up or down between photos, range maps and abundance maps.
In Windows you may…
Flip an image 180 degrees. Right-click on the image and select Flip image.
There… now they are both facing the same direction!
Right-click and select Play recording. You can actually do this for both images if you want to hear the birds singing together.
Right-click on either panel and select View eFieldguide page. This will return you to the Field Guide view for that bird, even if it is not the bird that you were looking at earlier.
Click View in the tool bar toggle between a horizontal or vertical layout.
Sometimes you may want to see more than two images at once. In that case, click the Photo Gallery button in the ID Wizard to see many images at the same time. Within the ID Wizard, you can start with all the birds and then filter using a variety of attributes – such as color, size, habitat, etc. In this way you can focus on just those specific birds you want to see. This is a great way to see all the small, yellow birds of the Georgia woodlands.
HINT: Open the ID Wizard and click the Clear selections on all tabs button. The entire list of birds will now appear on the right (click the Results tab if you do not see this). In Windows, click the invert selections button. Now you have the entire list of birds – but none are selected. Now you can click the box in front of any birds you want to see. Then click Photo Gallery. You can also save these birds as a Custom List. This is a great way to look at a number of birds that do not have anything obvious in common – such as the 20 “lifers” you hope to see on your next bird trip!
And finally, you can click the Similar Species button to see the five species that are most often confused with a specific bird.