Ageing & Sexing
A training package

Over the past five years I have been collecting digital photographs of birds in the hand showing all aspects of moult, age and sexing strategies

These photographs have been collated into a training presentation package with Microsoft PowerPoint which can be used by new trainee ringers/banders to understand the importance of moult strategy in ageing passerine birds.  Although most of the photographs are of British species the strategies they use to attain adult plumage is the same for most passerine species the world over.

Initially I have been making this presentation available to ringers in Britain but after showing some banding colleagues in the United States I have been asked if it is available there.  With this in mind I am endeavouring to add neararctic species on my visits to the states although the information on moult in the presentation can be used at present.

The following thumbnails give some examples the of feather tracts, moult, age and sex slides from the presentation.
 

Click on thumbs to enlarge	Feather tracts	Moult	Age	Sex

Many of the slides initially ask a question on moult/age/sex and then the next slides gives the answer and reasoning for this as in the two thumbnails below
 

Click on thumbs to enlarge	Age this European Goldfinch

The presentation is on a self loading CD which starts with a menu.  There are two options to run the presentation.  If you already have Microsoft PowerPoint installed on the computer the presentation can be run directly from the CD.  If not the presentation can be unpacked onto the PC together with the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer.

The presentations runs best under Windows98 or above on a PC with a CD drive, 64mb of Ram, a graphics adaptor with at least 16 bit colour and at least 50mb of free hard drive space (if the presentation is to be unpacked).

Sample downloads of the presentation in both 'plain' and packed form (with viewer) are available from the links below

Sample presentation (without viewer) (1.3Mb)                    Packed presentation with viewer (double-click pngsetup.exe to unpack) (4.1Mb)

The presentation contains 155 slides and is updated once a year with additional information

The cost of the disk is £20 plus postage (UK) or $35 plus postage (USA) other countries pleases contact.

 

I accept Pounds Sterling payments through PayPal.

To buy a copy please email the author  pjd-at-fbog.co.uk