There are many ways to improve your birding skills. Of course, the most important way is to spend a lot of time out in the field actually watching birds. Others are talking to other birders, reading books and more.
A very interesting way I recently found is to use a blog to learn more. I learned about this in the Teach me about birdwatching blog. Mel, the owner of this wonderful blog uses her blog to write about birds she finds and asks readers of her blog to help her identifying the birds and give her more information. When you see the number of comments in her blog, you will realize that it’s a very popular blog and many people are participating in it. I want to encourage you to help Mel, too. Remember: When you help someone, you almost always also learn something. Mel lives in Peru and when you have a field guide for Peru you can help her identifying birds she found and photographed. This will also improve your own ID skills for the birds in Peru.

If you think this is a great idea, just start your own blog. You can do that, for example, at Wordpress.com or at Blogger. If you have your own domain and web server or hosting contract, you can use the free and open source Wordpress software. birdingnet.com uses Wordpress, too (for the start page).