I'm a regular traveler who likes to take photo of birds when I see them. But I don't consider myself a birder.
That's fine
I do have a few guide booklet but even after comparing them to the guide, most of them I can't have much confidence as I have never really spent enough time learning about birds.
I said that it's not my region, but from the photos you have posted it seems to me that a lot of those birds are extremely distinctive, and would be easy to identify with confidence from a good book.
When I first posted here with queries about twelve years ago, I had already spent a lot of time trying to identify my birds from the two large and expensive books I had bought. But as you say, when you are a beginner, even with the best will in the world, there are some birds that you can't 'get'.
But, having said that, you don't seem to be making any effort to ID your birds before posting. Many new posters will put up pictures with their own ID - e.g. "I think this is X; am I right". But you never give your guess at an ID.
'm not familiar with the rules of the forum. Is this not meant for a traveler photo-taker like me?
There are no rules about wild birds (but the captive bird you posted is against the forum rules). So, if people answer, then you can post any way you like, as you have.
But, for myself, I don't understand why you want to ID the birds you saw without any apparent interest in the birds themselves. If you spent time trying to ID the birds from a good (and maybe expensive) guide book, and then asked about the difficult IDs here, then you would learn a lot about the birds themselves and the habitat that (in these days of extreme climate change) we hope to preserve for them to thrive.
So: I don't understand your purpose in wanting to ID the birds you saw without learning anything about them, which you would do from using a decent guide book to try to ID them and only posting if you had failed. Doesn't it take you longer to post your photos here than it would to try to ID them from a book and then post the genuinely difficult ones here?
