Related Links
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Professional Ornithological Organizations
- BA: Birds of Australia, also known as Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
- BIRDNET: The Ornithological Information Source presented by the Ornithological Council, contains the latest ornithological news, information on the major professional ornithological societies and links to other sites of interest to ornithologists. Links to all the major North American Ornithological societies.
- BOU: British Ornithologists' Union
- OSNA: Ornithological Societies of North America, with links to national ornithological web sites, many state, regional, and local ornithology societies in North America, as well as links to organizations around the world
- Ornithological Newsletter: From the Ornithological Societies of North America
Ornithological Collections and Museums
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia: Department of Ornithology
- Bishop Museum, Honolulu: Vertebrate Zoology
- Hawaiian Bird Checklist - A searchable database of the species of birds native or introduced to Hawaii.
- Burke Museum: Ornithology (University of Washington)
- California Academy of Natural Sciences: Ornithology and Mammalogy
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Section of Birds
- Field Museum of Natural History: Division of Birds
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (UC Berkeley): Bird Collection
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Information on the ornithology collection.
- ORNIS: Ornithological Information System. Combined collection search of various North American bird collections.
- Peabody Museum of Natural History: Yale University
- Slater Museum of Natural History - University of Puget Sound: Bird Collections
- University of Nebraska State Museum - Zoology collections
- World Anatomical Holdings: A downloadable PDF file of the AOU's inventory of museum holdings for skeletal and fluid preserved specimens. Data from the 1980's.
Ornithological Information
- Biological Resources Division, U. S. Geological Survey: Web sites
- Bird Banding Lab: Reporting bird bands in North America
- Bird Monitoring in North America: Information on breeding bird census, breeding bird survey, migration monitoring, bird banding data, and more
- Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: Information on migratory bird research at the Patuxent Center, Christmas bird counts, North American Breeding Bird Survey, bird identification tips, and much more
- Birds of North America: Life Histories for the 21st Century
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
- Macaulay Library: World's largest collection of wildlife sound recordings
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Suggested publications on Birds.
- Project VIREO: Bird photos of approximately 6500 species of birds
- Smithsonian Institution Migratory Bird Center
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Web sites
- Birds, Birds, BirdsEndangered Species Program
- Law Enforcement: Links to the Lacey Act, MBTA, ESA, information on importing and exporting specimens, etc.
- Permits
- Division of Migratory Bird Management: Links to laws and treaties, other information
- Birds Laws and Treaties
- Regional Offices
Checklists and Taxonomic Resources
- AOU Check-list: List of species for North and Central America, including Hawaii and the West Indies
- AOU South American Classification Committee: Checklist of Birds of South America
- Bird Families of the World
- Birds of the Continental United States and Canada
- Birds Protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
- USFWS Threatened and Endangered Species System
- Threatened and Endangered Animals and Plants
- Obsolete English names of North American Birds and their Modern Equivalents: An electronic version of Richard C. Bank's out of print publication
- World Bird Database: John Penhallurick's taxonomic database of birds of the world
- Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Birds of the world with literature citations
Collections Care and Specimen Conservation
- NSC Alliance: National Science Collections Alliance (formerly the Association of Systematics Collections). The NSC Alliance mission is to support and enhance natural history collections, their human resources, and the institutions that house them for the benefit of science and society. Visit this site for information on NSC Alliance activities, publications, government policy, etc.
- SPNHC: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. Information on the society, meetings, publications on collection care, and links to other preservation web pages and museum associations.
Birding Links
- Backyard Birding: Contains information on landscaping for wildlife, bird feeding, birdhouses, etc.
- Bird Links to the World: Many links to birding and ornithological web sites
- BirdSource: Birding with a purpose
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