Identifying by memory, keys, or other resources

There’s a lot of good ideas in How do you expand your knowledge of different taxa?.

If you can check with a local plant, insect, bird, etc. group, they might suggest a good local resource. For example, in my area, these are very good. I only learned about the 3rd one from a local CNPS meeting in the last two weeks:

Since reading the above thread, I’ve also started looking at daily research grade observations in my area. This is a good way to learn new ones too.

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