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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Richardson" data-source="post: 1305571" data-attributes="member: 43216">I’m also colour blind and I like to think it has a very negative effect on my birding. Truth is I would still probably be rubbish anyway. Like the majority of people on this thread I go through day to day life with out many problems, although it did take me ages to sort out the brown and green bottles at the bottle bank this morning! I also got sacked from picking tomatoes in Australia as I couldn’t distinguish slightly ripe toms from green quickly enough.When trying to identify birds I pay little attention to colour and try to rely on the plethora of other identification pointers mentioned above.</blockquote>