Bird Photography

In the spirit of my midterm project, and the amount of theoretical bird photography I would be doing, I found an article with useful tips and equipment listings for this specific type of wildlife photography. This person recommends a telephoto lens of at least 500mm. The author also emphasizes the importance of shutter speed for this type of photography. There is also a section dedicated to locating the birds and how to approach with tips this author has found useful, like: don't wear bright clothes, approach slowly and quietly, in a zigzagging pattern, try not to move when the bird is looking, don't stare, shoot from a distance while approaching so that the shutter doesn't scare the bird.

For all of the useful things in this article, I didn't find the camera settings portion particularly useful because the settings were all listed for Nikons, and I currently have a Canon. This author clearly has a lot of experience, but it seems to boil down to using your best judgement when approaching wildlife, have a fast shutter speed and a telephoto lens, and use a blind whenever possible.

This is the article