NORTH AMERICA

Links

Birding Sites

Trip Reports

Checklists

Some of my favorite bird web sites

• Birdnet - The ornithological Information Source
      http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/index.html
  

General Travel Information

• wikitravel: North America
      http://wikitravel.org/en/North_America
  

General Webpages

• Birder.com
      http://www.birder.com/
  
• Cornell's Online Bird Guide
      http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/
  

• ABA Code of Birding Ethics
      http://www.aba.org/about/ethics.html
  
• Audubon Bird's of America on-line version!
      http://www.nature.net/birds/
  
• Bird Banding and Migration Studies
      http://my.treeway.com/birdstudies/
  
• Bird lists for USA National Parks
      http://endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/nps/
  
• Bird species of North and Central America and Hawaii (2009 sp.)
      http://www.birdwatching.com/software/birdlists/n_c_amer98.html
  
• Birdinfo.com - North American Bird Information
      http://www.birdinfo.com/NorthAmerica.html
  
• Birding FAQ's
      http://www.birdingfaqs.com/
  
• Birding Guide Directory
      http://www.birdingguide.com
  
• Birding on the Net
      http://birdingonthe.net/
  
• Birding on the Web
      http://birdingonthe.net
  
• Birding page from The Mining Company
      http://birding.miningco.com/hobbies/birding/
  
• Birdlife Partners in the Americas
      http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/national/index.html
  
• Birdperch.com
      http://www.birdperch.com/
  
• Birds Info-Center
      http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/help.html
  
• Birds of the National Parks [archives]
      http://ice.ucdavis.edu/nps/
  
• BirdSource- Birding with a Purpose [archives]
      http://www.birdsource.com/
  
• Birdwatch America
      http://www.birdwatchamerica.com/
  
• Birdwatching.com
      http://www.birdwatching.com/
  
• Birdzilla
      http://www.birdzilla.com/
  
• Cavity-Nesting Birds of North American Forests
      http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/wildlife/nesting_birds/index.htm
  
• Coastal Marsh Project [archives]
      http://www.geog.umd.edu/wetlands/
  
• Current rarities in North America
      http://users.erols.com/gregorym/rarities.html
  
• Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere
      http://www.natureserve.org/getData/birdMaps.jsp
  
• Directory of Outdoor and Birding Associations
      http://www2.gorp.com/gorpapps/organizations/org_search.asp
  
• Disabled birder's Association of America
      http://www.dba-usa.org/
  
• Division of Migratory Bird Management
      http://migratorybirds.fws.gov/
  
• Enature.com
      http://www.enature.com/
  
• Endangered Species in USA [archives]
      http://www.fw.vt.edu/fishex/esis.html
  
• Eurasian Wigeon in North America
      http://www.islandnet.com/~mgs/birds/EurasianWigeon.html
  
• Flight Feathers.com
      http://www.flightfeathers.com
  
• Getting started with bluebirds
      http://www.nabluebirdsociety.org/start.htm
  
• Greg's birds of Prey [archives]
      http://www.buteo.com
  
• Hawk Count
      http://hawkcount.org/
  
• Houston NEXRAD Image
      http://www.intellicast.com/weather/iah/nexrad/
  
• informations on the US Fish and Wildlife Service servers
      http://www.fws.gov/
  
• Life Histories of North American Birds
      http://birdsbybent.netfirms.com
  
• List of taxonomic changes in the National Geographic Field Guide to The Birds of North America
      http://www2.fwi.com/~moellering/ngs.html
  
• Longevity Records for Birds
      http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl//homepage/longvrec.htm
  
• Make your own birding guide
      http://www.whatbird.com/mag/make-a-guide.aspx
  
• Migration Over the Gulf
      http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/8596/
  
• mrnussbaum.com
      http://www.mrnussbaum.com/birdsindex.htm
  
• National Bird Feeding Society
      http://www.birdfeeding.org/
  
• National Estuary Program
      http://www.epa.gov/nep/nep.html
  
• National Forests and Parks (GORP)
      http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/main.htm
  
• National Wetlands Inventory [archives]
      http://enterprise.nwi.fws.gov/index.html
  
• National Wildlife Refuges (GORP)
      http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/us_nwr/main.htm
  
• Nature Park
      http://www.naturepark.com/
  
• NatureServe Explorer
      http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/
  
• North American Bird Information
      http://www.birdinfo.com
  
• North American Bird Sounds
      http://www.naturesongs.com/birds.html
  
• North American Bird Species
      http://north-american-bird-species.org
  
• North American Rare Bird Alert
      http://www.narba.org/
  
• Ornithological Records Committee Directory
      http://home.rconnect.com/~phertzel/brc/brc.htm
  
• Ornithology
      http://www.ornithology.com/
  
• Owling.com - photos, calls and info on n & c amer owls
      http://owling.com/
  
• Peterson On-Line [archives]
      http://www.petersononline.com/
  
• Range of North American Breeding Birds
      http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/birds/breedrng/breedrng.htm
  
• Raptor Monitoring
      http://www.im.nbs.gov/raptor/raptor.html
  
• Rare Bird Alerts in the Pacific Northwest
      http://www.wos.org/BirdBox.htm
  
• Rare Bird Alerts phone numbers
      http://www.aba.org/resources/rbaphonelist.html
  
• Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History
      http://www.rtpi.org/
  
• Sage education enterprises, e.a. miller's column
      http://www.seepub.com/show/column/104
  
• Shorebirds Migration
      http://www.utm.edu/~phertzel/migration.htm
  
• State & Provincial Birds
      http://www.geobop.com/Eco/Master/Birds.htm
  
• The Natural Heritage Program
      http://www.natureserve.org/
  
• The Nutty Birdwatcher [archives]
      http://nuthatch.birdnature.com/
  
• The Virtual Birder
      http://www.virtualbirder.com/vbirder/
  
• VIREO slides
      http://vireo.acnatsci.org/
  
• Waterford Press Free Games & Activities
      http://www.waterfordpress.com
  
• Whatbird.com
      http://www.whatbird.com/
  
• Wild Bird Omnibus and complete Bent Life History Series
      http://www.birdzilla.com/sub.asp?strType=omnibus_intro
  
• Wild Bird Watching
      http://www.wild-bird-watching.com
  
• Wildbirds.com
      http://www.wildbirds.com/
  

Bird Monitoring Programs

• Bird Source: Birding with a purpose
      http://www.birdsource.org/
  
• BirdSource: monitoring programs online
      http://www.birdsource.org
  
• Breeding Biology Research and Monitoring Database (BBIRD)
      http://pica.wru.umt.edu/BBIRD/
  
• Breeding Bird Biology Research and Monitoring Database
      http://www.wru.umt.edu/
  
• Breeding Bird Survey Routes of North America: Map Layer Description File
      http://nationalatlas.gov/birdm.html
  
• Breeding Birds Survey Home Page
      http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/
  
• Canadian Lake Loon Surveys
      http://www.bsc-eoc.org/clls
  
• CBC database (FTP site)
      http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/z/cbc/homepage.html
  
• Christmas Bird Count
      http://www.im.nbs.gov/birds/cbc.html
  
• Christmas Bird Count Database Project [archives]
      http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/z/cbc/homepage.html
  
• eBird
      http://www.ebird.org
  
• FeederWatch (Canada)
      http://www.bsc-eoc.org/pfw.html
  
• Landbird Migration Monitoring Network of the Americas
      http://www.klamathbird.org/lammna/
  
• More on North American Breeding Bird Survey
      http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/
  
• North American Breeding Bird Survey
      http://www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/index.htm
  
• Project FeederWatch
      http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/
  
• Project Feederwatch
      http://hometown.aol.com/aves2464/Aves/Home.html
  

Research and Conservation Organizations

• Academy of Natural Sciences
      http://www.ansp.org/research/biodiv/ornithology.php
  
• American Bird Center
      http://www.americanbirdcenter.com
  
• American Bird Conservancy
      http://www.abcbirds.org/
  
• American Birding Association
      http://www.americanbirding.org/
  
• American Ornithologists' Union
      http://www.aou.org/
  
• Association of Field Ornithologists
      http://www.afonet.org/index.html
  
• Bird Banding Lab
      http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/
  
• Bird Banding Lab
      http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/default.htm
  
• Bird Organisations
      http://www.webdirectory.com/Wildlife/Birds/
  
• BIRDNET
      http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/
  
• Boreal Songbird Initiative
      http://www.borealbirds.org/index.html
  
• Center for Tropical Research, UCLA
      http://www.ioe.ucla.edu/CTR/default.htm
  
• Conservation and Research Center of the Smithsonian Institution
      http://www.si.edu/crc/
  
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology
      http://birds.cornell.edu/
  
• Department of Defense - Partners in Flight
      http://www.dodpif.org/
  
• DU Canada
      http://www.ducks.ca/
  
• Ducks Unlimited
      http://www.ducksunlimited.org/
  
• Eastern Bird Banding Association
      http://www.pronetisp.net/~bpbird/
  
• George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center
      http://www.suttoncenter.org/
  
• Hmana's hawk migration studies [archives]
      http://www.idbsu.edu/english/jbattali/raptors/HMANA/westcont.html
  
• Inland Bird Banding Association
      http://aves.net/inlandbba/
  
• Manonet Center for Conservation Sciences (Avian Conservation)
      http://www.manomet.org/
  
• Migration Monitoring Network
      http://www.rsl.psw.fs.fed.us/pif/mnstalst.html
  
• Migratory Bird Research
      http://www.im.nbs.gov/mbr/mbr.htm
  
• National Audubon Society
      http://www.audubon.org/
  
• National Biological Service - Bird Monitoring
      http://migratorybirds.fws.gov/statsurv/mntrtbl.html
  
• Nature Conservancy - Wired for Conservation
      http://www.tnc.org/
  
• North American Banding Council [archives]
      http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/NABC/
  
• North American Banding Council [archives]
      http://www.nabanding.net/nabanding/
  
• North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI)
      http://www.nabci.net/
  
• Northern Prairie Science Centre
      http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/
  
• Organization of Biological Field Stations
      http://www.obfs.org/
  
• Pacific Southwest Research Station (Redwood Sciences Laboratory)
      http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/wildlife/birdmon/
  
• Partners in Flight
      http://www.PartnersInFlight.org/
  
• Partners in Flight - Canada [archives]
      http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/canbird/pif/p_title.htm
  
• Partners in Flight - USA
      http://www.pif.nbs.gov/pif/
  
• Patuxent Bird Population Studies
      http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/
  
• Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
      http://www.pwrc.nbs.gov/
  
• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center [archives]
      http://www.si.edu/smbc/
  
• Society of Canadian Ornithologists
      http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/SocCanOrn/index.html
  
• The Academy of Natural Sciences
      http://www.ansp.org/
  
• The Cooper Ornithological Society
      http://www.cooper.org/
  
• The Hummer/Bird Study Group
      http://www.hummingbirdsplus.org/hbsgmis.html
  
• The Linnaean Society of new York
      http://www.linnaeansociety.org
  
• The Pacific Northwest Bird Database Project [archives]
      http://birdnotes.net/
  
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Bird Division
      http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/birds/
  
• USDA Forest Service Home Page
      http://www.fs.fed.us/
  
• Western Bird Banding Association [archives]
      http://thecity.sfsu.edu/snfc/western.htm
  
• Western Field Ornithologists
      http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/
  
• Wilson Ornithological Society
      http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/birds/wos.html
  

Bird Festivals

• Directory of Birding Festivals
      http://www.aba.org/festivals/
  

Books (individual titles)

• Books about North American Birds
      http://www.earthlife.net/birds/bg-n-america.html
  

Bird Pictures

• Bird Photography, Images of wild birds of Southwest US
      http://www.macro-photo.org/photo-gallery-birds.html
  
• Birdperch.com
      http://www.birdperch.com
  
• Jim Greaves North American Birds
      http://blackfoot.net/~larkwick/index.html
  
• Luke's Birding Pages
      http://www.lukecole.com/Birds/Luke's%20birding%20page.htm
  
• North American Bird Photography Gallery
      http://www.birdphotography.com/
  

Mailing lists

• About the BIRDBAND Listserver
      http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6549/birdband.htm
  
• BirdCntr: Rare Bird Alerts (Central USA+CAN) [archives]
      http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdcntr.html
  
• BirdEast: Rare Bird Alerts (Eastern USA+CAN) [archives]
      http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdeast.html
  
• BirdRBA: Rare Bird Alerts (North America) [archives]
      http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/bird_rba.html
  
• BirdTrip Digest [archives]
      http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdtrip.html
  
• BirdWest: Rare Bird Alerts (Central USA+CAN) [archives]
      http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdwest.html
  
• Neotropical migratory birds in southeastern United States
      http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/separt-l.html
  
• Recent listserv postings: Bird Banding
      http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/BAND.html
  
• Recent listserv postings: Bird Jobs
      http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/BJOB.html
  
• Recent listserv postings: Bird Records Committee
      http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/BRCF.html
  
• Recent listserv postings: TeenBirdChat
      http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/TBCH.html
  
• Tuffbirds: rarest birds on Rare Bird Alerts
      http://birdingonthe.net/hotmail/tuffbirds.html
  

General travel Information

• Delorme Atlas
      http://www.delorme.com/
  
• East Coast Tide Charts
      http://www.maineharbors.com/
  
• Geographic Names Information System
      http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
  
• MapBlast! - Detailed online city maps
      http://www.mapblast.com/
  
• Sunrise/sunset times and more
      http://riemann.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/
  

Birding tour operators

• Avocet Tours
      http://www.avocettours.com
  
• Bill Drummond Birding Tours [archives]
      http://members.aol.com/Crossbills/
  
• Field Guides Birding Tours Worldwide
      http://www.fieldguides.com
  
• Whiskeyjack Nature Tours
      http://whiskeyjacknaturetours.com
  

Bird-related Stores

• BigPockets Birding Outfitters
      http://www.bigpockets.com/index.html
  

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