Secrets of Digital Bird Photography

I just found a great new book about digital bird photography.  Secrets of Digital Bird Photography, by Bill
Majoros, is an online book worth a perusal by anyone from rank beginners to well-seasoned avian shutterbugs.  Best of all, the book is free! (Bill accepts donations to offset his web hosting costs- if you find the book helpful please consider chipping in.)  Take a look at the table of contents below to get a feeling for how comprehensive this book is.  Each section is hot linked so that jumping to a particular topic is just a click away, a boon for a book with this much information (900+ pages worth!) Big thumbs up- check this out &/or refer it to your bird photog buddies!

Chapter 1 : Introduction	Chapter 10 : Fundamentals of Image Processing
1.1 Introduction	10.1 Zooming, Cropping, and Resolution
1.2 A Note about Editions	10.2 Pixels and Bits
1.3 Brief Outline	10.3 Image Layers
Part I : Equipment	10.4 Visual Qualities
Chapter 2 : Cameras	10.5 Editing History
2.1 DSLR Cameras	10.6 Selection
2.2 Point-and-shoot Cameras and Digiscoping	Chapter 11 : Common Tasks
2.3 Megapixels and Crop Factors	11.1 Reducing Noise
2.4 Brands	11.2 Fixing Blown Highlights
2.5 ISO	11.3 Correcting Exposure
2.6 Autofocus	11.4 Eye Shine and Catchlights
2.7 Bells and Whistles	11.5 Removing Unwanted Items
2.8 Cleaning your DSLR	11.6 Sharpening
Chapter 3 : Lenses	11.7 Correcting Color, Saturation and Tilt
3.1 Focal Length and Aperture	Chapter 12 : Developing a Workflow
3.2 Zoom versus Prime	12.1 An Example Workflow
3.3 Special Glasses and Coatings	12.2 Structuring Your Archive
3.4 Teleconverters and Extension Tubes	12.3 Filtering
3.5 Image Stabilization	12.4 Conversion from RAW
3.6 Third-party Lenses	12.5 Separation of Subject
3.7 Sharpness and Bokeh	12.6 De-emphasizing the Background
3.8 Bells and Whistles	12.7 Sizing and Signatures
3.9 Cleaning Lenses	Chapter 13 : Advanced Techniques
3.10 Buying Lenses Used	13.1 Replacing the Background
3.11 Lens Calibration	13.2 Adding Artificial Clouds
3.12 Carrying Lenses in the Field	13.3 HDR and Tone Mapping
3.13 Other Considerations	13.4 Simulating Motion Blur
Chapter 4 : Accessories	13.5 Merging Poses
4.1 Tripods	Part IV : Distribution
4.2 Tripod Heads	Chapter 14 : Making and Selling Prints
4.3 External Flash	14.1 Practical Printing Issues
4.4 Other Accessories	14.2 Matting and Framing Prints
Chapter 5 : The Digital Darkroom	14.3 Putting Your Photos on Display
5.1 Choosing a Computer	14.4 Selling Bird Photos
5.2 Choosing a Monitor	Chapter 15 : Making a Slideshow DVD
5.3 Hard Drives	15.1 Software for DVD Production
5.4 Options for Backup	15.2 Image Quality
5.5 Card Readers	15.3 Obtaining Royalty-free Music
5.6 Image Processing Software	15.4 DVD Duplication and Packaging
Part II : Technique	Chapter 16 : Sharing Your Photos
Chapter 6 : Operating the Camera	16.1 Photo Hosting Sites
6.1 F-stops, Shutter Speeds, and ISO	16.2 Building a Custom Web Site
6.2 Exposing to the Right	16.3 Advertising Your Site
6.3 Exposure Modes	Appendix
6.4 Metering Modes	A. Additional Sources of Information
6.5 Autofocus Modes	Subject Index
6.6 Drive Modes	Photo Gallery
6.7 Selecting AF Points
6.8 Rapid Exposure Adjustments
6.9 Exposure Bracketing and HDR
6.10 RAW Versus JPG
6.11 Mirror Lock-up and Live View
Chapter 7 : Using Flash
7.1 Why Use Flash?
7.2 How Flash Works
7.3 Built-in Versus External Flash
7.4 Powering Your Flash Unit
7.5 Flash Settings and Exposure
7.6 Fill Flash Versus Flash as Main Light
7.7 Freezing Hummingbirds
7.8 Dealing with Red-eye and Steel-eye
7.9 Flash Extenders
7.10 Avoiding a Meltdown
7.11 Other Issues
Chapter 8 : Field Techniques
8.1 General Composition Principles
8.2 Angles and Light
8.3 Poses and Aliasing
8.4 Getting Close
8.5 Steadying the Camera
8.6 Being Flexible in the Field
8.7 Some Popular Bird Photography Locations
8.8 Planning a Bird Photography Trip
8.9 Photographing Warblers
8.10 Photographing Birds in Flight
Chapter 9 : Turning Your Yard into a Studio
9.1 Natural and Artificial Perches
9.2 Rustic Embellishments
9.3 Backgrounds