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Online Identification Guides/Sites - General
Patuxent
ID info center
Cornell's
All About Birds Guide
Cornell's
How to ID birds
ID
Eastern US Songbirds by Color
eNature
Bird Guides
BioDiversity Institute's
Internet Field Guide to Birds
site
Birds of North America Online
- a subscription (fee) service
David Sibley's
website
has quite a few useful ID points, mostly related to his Sibley Guide, and has an
identification notes
page.
Sibley Guides notebook
- blog by David Sibley.
Feather Atlas
- flight feathers of North American birds
Northern Michigan Birding
ID quizzes
How
not to mis-identify birds
Introductory material at
Wildbirds.com
Surfbirds online
Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe
Surfbirds
ID discussion gallery
and
forum
. Also:
Advanced ID articles
and
beginner bird ID forum
.
ABA's Birding Magazine
web archives
(2001-present)
images.google.com
can be quite a useful way to find species photos
Online Identification Guides/Sites - Species and Families
AZ Field Ornithologists' article
Status of Neotropic Cormorant in Arizona with Notes on Identification and Ageing
David Sibley's blog comemnts on
"Great White" Heron
Steve Hampton's
Gull identification
website
Bob Lewis's
Gull photos
Martin Reid's
Gull index
and
other ID issues
Ducks at a Distance
Ross's Goose hybrid
photo comparison
Identification of
white-cheeked geese
from idahobirds.net
Green-winged X Eurasian Teal hybrids
Ducks Unlimited
Waterfowl Gallery
Waterfowl
Cin-Ty Lee & Andrew Birch's
Field Identification of Dowitchers
article on Surfbirds.
The
Owl pages
Comparison of
vocal repertoires of Willow and Alder Flycatchers
DNA sequencing resolves identity of
strange hybrid warbler
(nicknamed "Junkin's Warbler")
David Sibley's blog comments on
Redpoll subspecies
and
Redpoll identification
Books and Software
Commercial:
Thayer's Birding Software
- now
finally
available for Macs.
Commercial:
Avisys
database
Commercial:
WhatBird
field guide software for your PDA
Brief review of birding software
from Surfbirds.com
Academia and Journals
SORA archive
at U.Minnesota
(ornithology literature)
VIREO -
Visual Resources for Ornithology
Listing
AOU
checklist of North American Birds
ABA
checklist
of North American Birds
Recommended
English names of birds of the world
Birdstack
- world bird lists online
List of Bird Banding Lab (BBL)
Four Letter Codes
(aka "Real Birders Use 4-letter Words")
Other
NEXRAD radar for Ft Dix (potentially useful for migration prediction)
via UCar
and
National Weather Service
Tracking migrant shorebirds
from USGS