General
- ABA Birding News A great resource. Includes links to transcripts of mailing lists.
- ABA Blog Multi-author blog with daily posts.
- Barbolink’s World A collection of great birding links.
- Bird Links to the World An amazing collection of links to sites for checklists, trip reports, mailing lists, tour groups, and photographs from around the world.
- Surfbirds A great all-around birding site. Full of tips, advice, reviews, photos and more. You name it and Surfbirds has it.
- The A. O. U. Check-list of North American Birds.
Identification
- Sibley Guides David Sibley’s website. Includes several identification articles.
- Colorado Field Ornithologists The Mystery Photo Quiz at this site is challenging and educational.
- Don Roberson’s site The 10 most misidentified birds of Monterey County is must reading.
- Ducks at a Distance The online version of the United States Geological Survey booklet of the same name.
- Fish Crow ID How to tell a Fish Crow from an American Crow.
- Identification of Dowitchers in the Pacific Northwest Very helpful for identifying dowitchers in the Midwest too.
- Identification of Northern and Loggerhead Shrikes From the Ontario Field Ornithologists website.
- Louisiana Ornithological Society A number of excellent identification articles can be found on the LOS website.
- Powdermill Bird Banding Photos of handheld birds are presented here. Includes notes on ageing, sexing, and identification. A great resource.
- Real Birds A fantastic site! Includes a wonderful photo gallery and “virtual” tours of two birding hotspots.
Illinois & Midwestern Birding
- Birding Illinois by County A multi-author guide to birding locations in Illinois
- Birding LaBagh Woods Forest Preserve How to bird LaBagh Woods Forest Preserve in Chicago, Illinois.
- Birds of Southern Illinois An online resource on the history of birds found in the seventeen southernmost counties of Illinois by W. Douglas Robinson.
- Carlyle Lake Bird Report If you want to know what’s being seen at Carlyle Lake in southern Illinois, this is the site to check. Includes a nice collection of rare bird pics from the area.
- Chicago Ornithological Society Website of Chicago’s oldest birding club.
- DuPage Birding Club Western suburban Chicago birding club.
- Evanston North Shore Bird Club Located in north suburban Chicago.
- Fermilab Birding Locations Includes a map and bird list for birding Fermilab in western DuPage County.
- Illinois Young Birders An Illinois birding club for young people ages 9 to 18.
- Kane County Audubon Society Includes a calendar of events for the Fox River Valley.
- Lake Cook Audubon Chapter Bird watching events and programs in and around Lake County Illinois.
- The Montrose Primer An online guide to birding the Montrose Point area in Chicago.
- The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology Includes a field trip schedule and a monthly birding guide for our neighbor to the north.
- Thorn Creek Audubon Society Birding events and programs in and around south suburban Cook County and eastern Will County.
- Whitefish Point Bird Observatory An online guide to birding Whitefish Point in Michigan. Recently updated.
Other Sites
- Backyard Bird Problems Covers everything from problem squirrels at your feeder to caring for injured birds.
- Birdingpal Need a contact or someone to go birding with? Check out this site.
- Birdwatching Myths Erik Blom discusses and dispells a number of misconceptions about birds.
- eBird A website that allows users to record and keep track of their North American bird sightings. Developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.
- HawkCount Features daily and monthly summaries from established hawk watching sites around North America. Part of HMANA’s (Hawk Migration Association of North America) Raptors Online effort.
- Jean Iron’s website. Website of Canadian birder and photographer Jean Iron. Full of great bird and mammal photos from Canada.
- North American Birders’ Forum An online discussion forum covering a wide variety of birding topics of interest to North American birders. New!
- Patuxent Bird Banding Laboratory Everything you want to know about bird banding is at this site. Includes a 1-800 number for finding out where a particular bird was banded.
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA) A searchable online archive of several ornithological journals.