Non conscious procedure
It has been seen that an observer who identifies through plumage acquires the status of expert bird identification by jizz after many years of practice. Paterson (2000), an important author of the seabirds of Spain and Portugal, with many years of experience through plumage, says that “…even after decades of observation... The knowledge base is built slowly... To be an expert observer takes time”. This is so because the true identification does not occur in most cases through plumage, but through evaluation of the holistic variables that the observer by plumage continuously and subconsciously incorporates, and acquires after long years of observation.
The great David Sibley, a seasoned American ornithologist, pioneer and editor of excellent bird guides, stated in 2005 that "bird identification is based in most cases on a kind of subjective impression caused by the way the bird moves, as well as by the succession of instantaneous appearances from different angles; and as the bird moves the head, flies and rotates, it allows you to see sequences of different shapes and angles. All this combines and creates a unique impression of a bird that, in fact, cannot be separated from the set and explained with words. When you observe a bird in the field, you do not stop to analyse it to say “it has this, that and that, so it must be an example of such a species. It is something much more natural and instinctive. After much practice, one looks at the bird and feels as if small switches were activated in the brain. It is what it seems. You know what is it at first glance”.
It is difficult to better express how the process of identifying a bird actually occurs in the mind of an observer through plumage: fast ID conclusion, at a glance. Subjective, that cannot be transmitted. With little relevance of plumage details. It does not have a rational explanation for what happens. Its acquisition requires a lot of practice, does not require technology, it is not conscious and needs years to develop. The reader will have recognised this kind of identification, which we have come to call "jizz".
The "jizz" ID conclusion is achieved after years of conscious observation of the plumage and unconscious observation of the variables, of holistic nature, associated with the bird and its environment. At the same time the observer analyses plumage in a conscious way, its unconscious captures the rest of the bird's variables such as structure, behaviour and ecological position. This process is made more or less unconscious during years of practice.
Technology of this book has been designed with the aim of mastering, in a reasonable time, what an expert by plumage takes years to acquire.
The conscious birding by impression
This book provides tools to acquire the needed dexterity to identify familiar birds (not rare) at a glance, even in adverse conditions of visibility. Detection of a rare bird will be by exclusion, as soon as it is spotted. It also provides an integral knowledge of the bird immersed in its environment. It is an effective, fast, stable and universally applicable mental resource.
The book shows a technology created for the observer to learn to identify birds by impression, after an active, systematic and conscious process. The method, and learning of birding by impression is based on the integrative properties of the right hemisphere and occurs after a process of generation of impressions (PGI). In this process, the main holistic root variables of the sighted bird are operated in a predetermined order. To construct the sentences, result of variable operation, an evaluative language is used. The mere elaboration of evaluative sentences made as well with evaluative language generates impressions in the right hemisphere. With practice, and throughout the process of practical learning, a complex impression will be produced by the accumulation of simple impressions of a species, a prelude to the sudden identification of the bird. The observer will verify that he can identify such species at a glance, without stopping to evaluate its variables.
Conscious procedure
With the neurological investigations carried out from the new millennium it was shown that the brain functions are dispersed, to a certain extent, in the cerebral volume, therefore, they do not have a specific location. Nevertheless, it is assumed that the integrative and holistic functions predominate in the right side of the brain, while on the left the analytic and disintegrating functions of a whole in its parts are very relevant. To be more precise we should talk about “functions of the left hemisphere” or “functions of the right hemisphere” to refer to the nature of cerebral functions and not to the topographic place they could occupy in the brain. With the valorization of the potentialities of the right side of the brain, emerged authors who incorporated these properties to the learning of the most varied subjects, from music to languages.
Technology of birding by impression requires the observer to consciously apply techniques and method, in order to generate holistic impressions. Identifying with the right side of the brain makes it possible for birders of any level to acquire a much improved version of jizz dexterity from expert observers through plumage in a significantly shorter time than needed if the "not conscious" jizz identification is used.
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