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• South and Central America
• Asia
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• Carribean
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• Australia and New Zealand
• Specific birds or families
• Usenet
• FAQ's
• Software
• Books
• Travel
• Searches

• InterBirdNet Birding information and magazine
• BACK: Jack Siler's "Birding on the Web"

  Features:
  - Recent digests and archives of virtually all email lists related to birds
  - Recent and slightly dated transcriptions of a large number of RBA's
  - Links and Images
  - Announcements
  - FAQs, birdrelated information in general

• Sibley & Monroe's checklist of the birds of the world put up by myself
• World Wildlife Fund check the Web of Life!
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• Tree of life find the birds!
• Earthwatch lots of interesting environmental projects, these connected to birds
• Birds of the world on the Web project Robert Hole

General

"General"of course means "diverse". I could not devise fitting groups.
• Electronic Bird Resources articles and links by Christopher Majka
• Bird Organisations adresses
• Birds in the United States National Parks
• Christmas counts database
• Encoding bird names
• AVES archive images and sounds
  

• North American breeding bird survey (among other things) amusing "mystery maps"
• Migratory Bird Research on same server as the above, but apparently no links from that page
• Pictures of flying birds
• Mystery bird, mathematical modelling of birdwatching(?)
• US Fish and Wildlife Service

• National Wildlife Refuge System
• National Audubon Society
• Extinct birds in North America
• Nature hikes in SF bay area Mike Thoma
• some 1000mm/4000mm pictures Michael Myers

• Bird Songs from Cornell
• Birding magazines list with addresses
• Birds: our environmental indicators
• Endangered Species
• Journey North data on spring migration of some birds and other animals

• Some images
• Satellite tracking of endangered birds
• Conservation Reserve Program
• Photographs of birds Dan Conway
• Shorebird migration Paul Hertzel
• Images at Caltech

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By Location

For a sensitive map-based presentation of most of the below see the
GeoGraphical Birding Guide by Ignaz Wanders

I haven't been keeping up with all the Audubon chapters coming
online, so you may want to try the National Audubon Society as well.

• Alabama backyard list
• Alaska Bird Observatory
• Chuck Williamson's "Arizona Birding"
  -Information on National Birding Hotline Cooperative
  -today's talk on BirdChat, BirdWest etc.
  -Arizona Hotlines
  -get hitlist info, provide others with it
  
• Arizona Trip reports from BirdChat(USA), pictures(Az) and checklists(Az), Lisa Bryan
• Baltimore Bird Club Terence Ross

• Birding in Banff national Park
• Birding in British Columbia Ian Johnston
• Tweeters email list for BC and Washington
• British Columbia: endangered species
• California Southern California Audubon

• Carolinas Patrick Coin
• Colorado Birding in Fort Collins, William Pulliam
• Delaware Maurice Barnhill
• Georgia Joel Hitt
• Illinois Urs Geiser

• Kansas Northern Flint Hills Audubon
• Louisiana birds Dan Purrington
• Louisiana: Shreveport Society for Nature study Bird Study Group
• Massachussets C. Seggelin
• Michigan Birding Al Brushaber
• Michigan: Rouge River bird observatory
• Minnesota Birding Network
• Minnesota Ornithologists' Union very nice
• Montana

• Nebraska Nice but some strange things:duck blinds, snow goose recipes?
• New Brunswick
• New York(state) Rob Scott
• New York city
• New Jersey Herb Thomson

• North-Dakota Northern Prairie Science Centre
• Nova-Scotia Bird Society
• OhioBirdNet Ignaz Wanders
• Oregon
• Palo Alto Baylands preserve
• Quebec Denis Dumouchel

• Birds of Quebec Denis Lepage
• Birds of Sanibel island
• South Caroline: Georgetown William Pulliam
• Tennessee Ornithological Society
• Texas Bird Records Committee
• Texas Gulf Coast
• Bolivar Peninsula, Texas Gulf Coast
• South Texas
• South Texas Birdwatching
• Toronto Bird sightings
• Washington Ornithological Society
• Bird distributions in Washington
• Washington Birder newsletter
• Wildlife in Waterton National Park
• Yukon Bird Club

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Museums, institutions, collections

• Cornell ornithology collection
• Cornell library exhibits
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Library of Natural Sounds
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology yet another Cornell address

• Slater Museum ornithology collection
• Peabody Museum Ornithology collection
• Pierce Brodkorb Ornithology Collection Fossil birds, Florida Museum of Natural History
• Ornithology collections of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
• Bird collection of Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Berkeley
• Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History Department of Vertebrate Zoology

• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
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• Birds in Mexico Felix Guerrero
• Galapagos Islands: Charles Darwin Research Station slow link to a remote server!
• Costa Rica birds
• Brazil:Cemave among other (Portuguese) things: bird list of Brazil
• Brazil:Prioridades de Conservacao para a Avifauna da Amazonia
• Trip impressions from Peru Eva Casey

• Wild Bird Society of Japan
• Virtual birding in Tokio
• Hidenori Mitsui
• Birdsong
• Oriental Bird Club very nice
• Birds in Taiwan Endemics, birding sites
• Wild Bird Society of Taiwan
• Nishimura Fieldnotes. Looks good, but only in Japanese!
• Singapore:Jurong Bird Park Bird Zoo

• African Bird Club very nice
• Birds Africa Information on a new magazine. Some short articles.
• Gameparks in Southern Africa
• Observations from Mozambique

• Birds in the Netherlands The top bird home page: places to bird, recent news, checklist
• Jeugdvogelwerkgroep Zuidlaren
• Jeugdbond voor Natuur- en Milieustudie in the works
• (Dutch) butterflies

• Bonaire

• Scotland UK list, notice board, Paul Doyle
• Wales James Cracknell
• Birdwatching in Northern Ireland
• The Shetland Bird Club
• Birds of Foula (Shetland)and pictures of seabirds Kenny Ensor
• England: Sheffield Bird Study Group A.J. Morris
• England: Information on some English birds
• England: the Bird page some adresses
• Watchout: information on British wildlife

• Sweden: Uppland
• Sweden: Ottenby bird observatory
• Sweden: Haparanda
• Sweden: Takern
• Norway: Akeroya Christer Jakobsen
• Norway: Fugleskue/Birdwatch Tor Ivar Bjonness
• Finland page with links to some Finnish birdrelated sites (I think)
• Finland Juhani Kyyrv's page with a fine collection of bird photo's, both from the US and Finland

• Switzerland info on EuroBirdNet, trip reports from the net, Alain Chappuis
• BIYOT in Turkey
• Italy: Wild animal recovery centre centre of Italian committee for protection of raptors
• Spain: Catalan ornithology
• Living Europe Web pages on research for television program on European wildlife. List of bird sites throughout Europe.

• Australian bird list, biodiversity data, and lots more..
• Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
• Birds in Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Birds of the Torrens, Adelaide
• Tasmanian Birds

• Antarctica
• Kiwi Conservation Club
• Images of Australian birds

• Penguin page great pages
• Penguin count Gabo island
• more penguins
• Still more penguins
• Penguins from Finland pictures

• Barn owl
• Owls
• Eastern Screech-Owl pictures Jamie Stewart

• Falconry, but also birds of prey in general
• Raptor Centre
• Southeastern Raptor Rehabilitation Center
• perches for raptors
• Birds of prey in Texas from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences
• The Eagle Page links to eagle related sources
• Nesting Peregrines in Calgary Very informative: live images and lots of Peregrine information
• The Peregrine Fund
• Peregrine falcons at Bon Echo
• Chicago Peregrine release and restoration project
• Nesting Bald Eagle in Discovery Park

• Ratites Ostriches and the likes
• International Crane Foundation
• Rainforest Birds

• Archaeopteryx and other distant relatives..
• California Quail
• Piping Plover guardian program
• Red-Cockaded Woodpecker bibliography
• Hummingbirds
• Hummingbirds
• Colour-marked Ruby Throated Hummingbirds Request for info, Bill Hilton Jr.
• South-Carolina Ducks Unlimited
• Tragopan Newsletter of World Pheasant Association
• Danphe Nepal's national bird

• World Parrot Trust: Canada
• World Parrot Trust: USA
• Parrots information on all parrots
• Spix's Macaw recent news from SF Chronicle
• Kakapo

• Gulls some scientific publications (Kenny Ensor)
• Spotted Pardalote
• Eastern Bluebird Philip Wagner
• The Bluebird Box with Bluebird faq
• Blackbirds Alvaro Jaramillo
• Goose bibliography searchable database, on Simon Fraser University. Great.
• Parus World: the Parus International homepage tits,chickadees...

• rec.birds on wild birds
• sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera that's butterflies

  on some servers the following groups may be available:

• uk.rec.birdwatching on British Birds
  (doesn't work? try a www version or a gopher version)

• scot.birds on Scottish birds
• nf.birds on Newfoundland birds

rec.birds FAQ compiled by Brian Rice
• part 1 HTML version
• part 2 HTML version

• rec.birds FAQ and optics for birding FAQ
• Better View Desired binocular info by Steven Ingraham

• BirdInfo information on a listing program
• Axia CDROM's on bird identification
• Natureware CDROM on Eastern Bird identification
• Fieldwork Software Checklist Several interesting items, like ID generators, Birds of Europe CD-ROM etc.

• NHBS: Natural History Book Service
• Indiana University Press Bird Books
• Facts on File book catalogue
• University of Texas Press: Ornithology and natural history
• American Association of University Presses search here for lots of ornithology
• Balogh Scientific Books
• Specialist Science Books
• Suggested publications on birds references from the Smithsonian
• Endangered,Threatened and recently extinct birds references from the Smithsonian

• Wings: Birdwatching Tours Worldwide
• Eagle-Eye Tours Inc.
• Holbrook Travel

• All-in-One search page Lycos,Nikos,Aliweb,Yahoo, the lot..