Birdwatching

Birdwatching is a VISUAL FIELD game on Lumosity.com, training your brain to pay attention to multiple things at the exact same time. It has several important features, and is also the only Lumosity game which launches in a new window. A similar game called Eagle Eye was released in 2010.

Bird Finding
You have a limited number of exposures each time you play the game. When you are not guessing letters or bird names, you are playing the bird finding part of the game. A letter will appear in the box at the center of the screen, and a picture of a bird will also appear elsewhere on the screen. You are supposed to move your camera mouse pointer to where the bird was and click. Then, a new screen will come up with a list of five letters. You need to hit the letter which you saw in the center square.

Bird Name Guessing
If you are correct, the letter you picked will move down onto a hangman-style set of blanks for the name of the bird. You then have a chance to guess the name of the bird. If you have no idea, click the "next" button to go straight to the next round of bird finding. If you can guess the name of the bird, you not only save exposures for later but earn EXTRA points!

Score and Bird Display
Once you have used all your exposures, a final screen comes up. It says the number of birds you have captured and shows their pictures in a "notepad" to the side. It also says your score, and whether or not you have unlocked the next difficulty level of the game.

Three Letters
Jay

Owl

Four Letters

Coot

Crow

Dove

Duck

Gull

Hawk

Ibis

Lark

Loon

Rail

Swan

Teal

Tern

Wren

Five Letters

Brant

Crane

Eagle

Egret

Eider

Finch

Goose

Grebe

Heron

Junco

Quail

Robin

Snipe

Stilt

Stork

Vireo

Six Letters

Avocet

Curlew

Condor

Cuckoo

Dipper

Falcon

Gannet

Grouse

Magpie

Oriole

Petrel

Phoebe

Pigeon

Plover

Puffin

Scoter

Shrike

Siskin

Thrush

Turkey

Weaver

Willet

Seven Letters

Bluejay

Bittern

Bunting

Cardinal

Catbird

Chicken

Flicker

Gadwall

Grackle

Kestrel

Mallard

Moorhen

Peacock

Pelican

Pintail

Ostrich

Skimmer

Sparrow

Swallow

Tanager

Vulture

Warbler

Waxbill

Waxwing

Eight Letters

Bobwhite

Cardinal

Flamingo

Grosbeak

Killdeer

Longspur

Nuthatch

Ovenbird

Redstart

Shoveler

Surfbird

Thrasher

Nine Letters

Albatross

Blackbird

Chickadee

Crossbill

Dowitcher

Goldeneye

Sandpiper

Sapsucker

Spoonbill

Ten Letters

Flycatcher

Kingfisher

Meadowlark

Roadrunner

Shearwater

Woodpecker

Eleven Letters

Hummingbird

Frigatebird

Nightingale

Mockingbird

Thirteen Letters

Oystercatcher