Thank you for taking a look at our Links page. The internet is full of outstanding birdwatching, ornithological and all-things-bird websites and services. Perhaps the place to start when looking for bird related things is on the Fat Birder: www.fatbirder.com. The gentleman is a powerhouse bird-web developer and a nice person to boot. Take a look at his biographical page and look at his Top 500 Birding sites.
In your preparations for a birding trip, it is always a good idea to become acquainted with the birds beforehand. Long after the days of trying to �memorize� every bird in the field guide the internet provides us with some more robust alternatives.
The Internet Bird Collection: Brought to us by the folks at Lynx Ornithological Editorial, this site may just top �em all. At the time of this writing, they had videos of 62.08% of the birds of the world. If we do not get some of this deforestation under control, that number might jump prematurely.
Xeno-Canto: Bird songs and sounds of the Americas. Nothing beats birding by ear. Learn the birds of the Americas here. I recommend that you develop an appetite for some of our tours by listening to this bird commonly heard and occasionally seen on our Ecuador: Headwaters of the Amazon Tour.
North American and Costa Rican Bird Songs and Sounds: This is a wonderful and very complete repository of bird songs and sounds.
Learn Bird Songs by Lang Elliot: A wonderful site and a great idea. This concept should be applied to all of the world�s birds!
The Flickr Birds of the World Group: High quality pictures of most of the birds of the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and other wealthy nations as well as maybe pictures of 1/8 of the birds of the rest of the world.
After about 200 birds, our Life Lists and birding records get increasingly complex, data laden, and hard to maintain. Several solutions have been devised, many of them good. There are always the computer programs like AviSys, Thayer, and Birdbase. We have not tried any of these here and do not endorse any of these, nor do we have anything critical to say about any of them.
There are internet based options too.
Bubo Listing: We have tried and do like this non-profit world bird listing option. We hope to incorporate their service into our website and organization. Check out our About Us page to learn about our use of free sites.
Birding Central: A very interactive online listing option for the U.S. and Canada.
If you want to know more about birds, their origins, their ecologies, their dreams, I suggest that you do research by these means: Google Scholar. Type in a query like: �piciformes� or �passerine migration� and you will be presented with many articles. Some of these are free.
Search with Google Scholar from your local Universities Library and Google scholar will often recognize your location and search in the School's own electronic databases and holdings AUTOMATICALLY! That means access to many more articles that you've already paid for with your taxes (if it is a public University). Some large local libraries also pay for electronic databases like EBSCOhost.
Epic Bird Tours, Inc. was incorporated by Morris, a DIY birder. He began birding internationally without birding company tours. He encourages all those who toy with the idea of going birding �out there� on their own, to go ahead and do it! Here are some useful sites for these ends:
Birding Pal: Find friendly local birders and the occasional guides from anywhere in the world.
Travelling Birder: Know what birds you are looking for by scouring this site for trip reports.
Where Would You Like to Go Birding Today? -A wonderful repository of birding information about most if not all of the productive and important birding locales of the world. Not all of the links work, but it worth scouring. Also, check out their world bird photo gallery.
Birding on the Net: When planning a U.S. and Canada birding trip it is always good to check what bird are being seen at the moment and what rarities are being, watched, stalked, or staked out!
How to Learn Any Language: If you plan on visiting a foreign country with a foreign tongue use the information on this site to learn the language beforehand. You may want to know how to ask: �Where do you folks hide all the rare birds?� in Spanish, for example (�Me puede decir donde eseconden sus aves extraordinarias?).
Couch Surfing.com: For those of you who really want to bird it on the cheap, check this site out. There is no more secure, interesting, rewarding or less expensive to bird your way around the world. Imagine birding in Argentina for a month and shelling nothing out for lodging!
Of course, don�t forget to check out the Fat Birder!
Surfbirds
10,000 Birds- These guys know �where it�s at�
Birding.com
All About Birds: Including internet based guide to the birds of the USA
Breeding Bird Atlas: Including their free U.S. & Canada bird listing software.
