Organizations

American Birding Association
- Bruce Bowman's ABA Checklist updates
American Ornithologists' Union
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
- eBird - enter your sightings, then browse the collected data for information of bird distributions
- BirdSource
- Project FeederWatch
National Audubon Society
- Richmond Chapter
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Partners in Flight
Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
Species Specific Organizations
Virginia Society of Ornithology

Information collections - general

Life Histories of Familiar North American Birds by Arthur Cleveland Bent. Electronic version of Bent's description of selected species.
Personal/volunteer-maintained sites
- rec.birds FAQ
- Where do you want to go birding today? - maintained by Tina MacDonald
- BIRDCHAT mailing list archive - archives of the premier North American email list for serious birders
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive - sponsored by University of New Mexico. Full text articles from a number of ornithology journals through approximately (current year - 4).
- Collective nouns for groups of birds (i.e. "a murder of crows")
  - Collective noun list from NZBirds
  - Collective Nouns for Birds by Laura Erickson
  - Collective nouns! Anne'Xed Network
  - Bruce Bowman's nine-year-late entry to the Wild Bird News contest for bird-related collective nouns.
Research/Education sites
- Guide to Migratory Bird law and treaties - from US Fish and Wildlife Service
- West Nile Virus - status report from the US Department of Agriculture on the spread of West Nile Virus in the US
- North American Breeding Bird Survey
- Band Codes for AOU species
- Obsolete English Names of North American Birds and Their Modern Equivalents by Richard C. Banks (Patuxent Wildlife Research Center)
- Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter - Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Contains tips on identification, bird song recordings, images, etc.
- Whitefish Point Bird Observatory - Paradise, Michigan
- Aves section of the Animal Diversity Web - sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (Gotta know your scientific nomenclature for this one, but it includes photos and sounds for some species.)
- Birds and Birding info from the Pennsylvania Game Commission
- Bird studies in the Australian National Botanic Gardens - unavailable when checked on 8/11/00.
Commercial sites
- Birder.com - lots of birding info, plus on-line shopping for birding gear.
- Birdzilla.com
  - Wild Bird Omnibus - includes accounts from Bent's Life Histories
- Enature.com - online field guides with information from the Audubon guides. Digital postcards and personal life lists are also available here.
- GORP Birding pages
- Virtual Birder - take an interactive birding trip
- Peterson Online

Periodicals

Birdwatchers Digest
Birders World
Living Bird - Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Optics

Better View Desired - the internet journal of birding optics and the better view.
Optics for Birding - essays and reviews on birding optics, maintained by Ed Matthews.
Bushnell/Bausch & Lomb
Kowa Company, Ltd. - unavailable when checked on 8/11/00.
Nikon
Orion Telescopes and Binoculars
Pentax
Swarovski Optik
Digiscoping

Regional birding information

BirdMail - Birdingonthe.Net's archive of regional email lists
South Atlantic Migratory Bird Initiative (US Fish and Wildlife Service) - access to various shorebird and waterfowl census data from southeastern US wildlife refuges.
Virginia
- VA-BIRD mailing list
- Virginia county map - good to have handy while reading VA-BIRD
- Virginia's Birding and Wildlife Trail - Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
- Virginia Composite Bird List - maintained by Sue Heath
- Spring arrival worksheet - maintained by Todd Day
- Virginia Society of Ornithology
- Audubon Society, Richmond Chapter
  - RAS mailing list archive
- Nature Conservancy, Virginia
- Virginia Birding hotspots - from Tina MacDonald
- Virginia Important Bird Areas
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel birding information. Outlines security regulations for birders visiting the Bay-Tunnel.
- Birds on Assateague
- Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
- Birding at University of Richmond
- Virginia Fish and Wildlife Information Service
Florida
- Great Florida Birding Trail
- Southern Florida Bird Finding FAQ
- Your Florida Backyard - site dedicated to educating Floridians about wildlife in their home state, by Marianne Cowley
Georgia
- Georgia's Colonial Coast Birding Trail
Montana
- Montana Audubon
  - Flathead Audubon (new site)
- Montana Bird Distribution - server with bird population data
- Montana Birding mailing list (MOB)
  - MOB-Montana Yahoo group
  - Montana birding mailing list (MOB-L) archive
- Birds of Montana - Radd Icenoggle's Montana birding info
- Montana county map - good to have handy while reading MOB-L
- Flathead National Forest
- Montana National Wildlife Refuges
- Birding Montana from VirtualBirder
- Where to bird: Montana - from Birding.com
- Species abundance for some Montana locations
South Carolina
- Birding South Carolina - Open Directory Project
- Cape Romain NWR
- Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests
- Charleston Natural History Society
- Caw Caw Interpretive Center - Ravenel, SC
- South Carolina Birding Hot Spots - article by Bill Hilton, Jr.
- South Carolina county maps
Birds of Nova Scotia - on-line version of the book of the same name by Robie Tufts
Bird watching in Pennsylvania - information from the Pennsylvania Game Commission

Species specific information

Baird's Sparrow photos - by Greg Lasley
Bald Eagle
- The Eagle Page
- EagleWatch - St. George's Day School, Germantown, TN
  - Live eagle nest camera
Grasshopper Sparrow photos - by Greg Lasley
North American Bluebird Society
CanadaGoose.com by Branta (who claims to be a Canada Goose)
Crows
- Crows - Kevin McGowan's Home page (Kevin is a Crow specialist at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.)
- www.crows.net
- Crows and Ravens - information from the Pennsylvania Game Commission
Welcome to the Chickadee Web - maintained by Jack Paul
Hummingbirds - maintained by Lanny Chambers
The Owl Pages - by Deane Lewis, Queensland Australia
The Raptor Center - University of Minnesota
Turkey Vulture Society

Rare Bird Alert sites

Recent Rare Bird Alerts - maintained by Siler at UPenn
Rarebirds.com - maintained by Bruce Vander Lee
National Birding Hotline Cooperative

Videos and Image collections

Birdfilms.com - home of bird watching films Michael Male and Judy Fieth
Live nest cameras
Digibird.com
Michael's Photo Gallery
Mark Cassino's Photos - Jays, cardinals, woodpeckers, etc.
Don DesJardin's Birds
Peter Weber's photos
Louis Agassiz Fuertes - unavailable when checked on 8/11/00.

Live nest cameras

1999
- Peregrine Falcon nest, Kodak, Rochester, NY
- Peregrine Falcon nest, Columbus, OH

Bird sound collections

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Bird of the Week - has sound for each Bird of the Week
Greg Kunkel's Bird Songs - "A Web page dedicated to the recording of Bird vocalizations with simple, inexpensive equipment."
NatureSongs.com
Learning Bird Songs by Lang Elliot
Patuxent Bird Identification Info Center
Bird Songs - primarily birds found in New York state, USA - maintained by Tony Phillips, SUNY-Stonybrook Mathematics
Bird-songs by description - an interesting site which allows you to choose bird songs based on their characteristics. Songs are provided by Patuxent Migratory Bird Research center.
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net - in addition to sounds, has an extensive list of other bird/animal sounds web sites.

Conservation

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Natural Resource Defense Council
NatureServea source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada.
Partners in Flight
Rainforest Alliance
Migratory songbirds and coffee
- Conservation Agriculture Program - Rainforest Alliance program to promote responsible agricultural practices. ECO-O.K. certification is part of this effort.
- Coffee Corner - Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
  - Coffee, Conservation, and Commerce in the Western Hemisphere - a joint report of the Natural Resource Defense Council and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

Mail-order sources

Aspects, Inc. - manufacturer of the HummZinger hummingbird feeder
Duncraft - purveyor of various and sundry bird feeding paraphernalias
Eagle Optics
Peterson Online
Wild Bird Center
Wild Bird House
Wild Birds Unlimited

Checklists, field guides, etc.

Bird Checklists of the United States - checklists for states and specific locations maintained by Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Quick indexes for National Geographics Field Guide, 3e - courtesy of AviSys
Bruce Bowman's ABA Checklist updates
Chris Moellering's AOU Lists
The A.O.U. Check-list of North American Birds, Seventh Edition
Clements classification of birds of the world - maintained by J. Siler
Sibley-Monroe classification of birds of the world - maintained by J. Siler

Software

Review of Birding CD-ROMs - Michael R. Hannisian, courtesy of the NJ Audubon Society
Avisys (Windows only)
Bird Brain - Macintosh
Lanius Excalibur (Windows only)
MapView by Flying Emu. (Windows only)
Thayer Birding Software (Windows only) They also have a newsgroup, which is accessible via this site.
Birdbase and BirdArea (Santa Barbara Software Products)
Palm AOU Checklist - free, maintained by Babak Ashrafi (ashrafi@mit.edu).