-=LINKS=- Reference ID sites for Birds

[PhotosGuy]

Like many others, I've had targets of opportunity flutter by & often had no clue what it was I "shot". And, most sites I've found are useless! Why? There's NO image index page, so you have to click on every name to find something you're trying to ID.
Would it be SO hard to provide a page of thumbnails for us? Well, Some members have found a couple below that do have thumbs.

If anyone has a similar THUMB site, please help us all out & post a link here. In the long run, it should save you time trying to ID the unknowns we've encountered! ;)

And, thanks everyone!

[CyberDyneSystems]

Photo Index Birds of Prey (http://home.hccnet.nl/r.goedegebuur/plaatjes.html)

[tupe]

A Sampler of the World's Birds:
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/Sampler.htm

Waterfowl of the World plates:
http://mawba.com/identify.htm

These last two aren't thumb sites, but they are useful -

Discover Life - All Living Things (primarily North America):
http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/
ID Nature Guides can be particularly helpful.

AviBase - the World database of birds:
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?pg=checklist&lang=EN
This site gives lists of birds individual continents, countries, and states.

[LazyPhotographer]

How to report a banded bird:
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/homepage/call800.htm

Identify a bird by location, size, and colour:
http://www.percevia.com/wizards/StateColorSize/wizard.aspx

Animal Diversity Web:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

[DavidEB]

US Geological Survey (http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/resource.htm)

[In2Photos]

I like www.whatbird.com (http://www.whatbird.com) for birds in NA. It has a fairly handy search tool using different criteria. It has about 900 species IIRC. It can be a little slow, though.

[Blue Deuce]

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/

[janruss]

The Net's Largest Birding Community Dedicated to Wild Birds
http://www.birdforum.net/

[dewmuw]

A-Z of British Birds - RSPB Site (http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/index.asp)

If you have a rough idea of what the bird might be these photo sites can confirm for you Sue's Bird Photos (http://www.suesbirdphotos.co.uk/) and Steve Round's Page (http://stevenround-birdphotography.com/)

[Blue Deuce]

Birds, animal, reptiles, insects, butterflies, etc.

http://www.enature.com/home/

[G3owner]

Tarsiger.com is a Finnish birding website. It's target is to provide bird pictures around the world and recent observations of rare birds from Finland, Estonia and the Western Palearctic region. You can search the pictures easily and efficiently from our database. Currently, there are 15712 images from 1717 species on the server, 5654 images and 349 species from Finland.

http://www.tarsiger.com/?p=main&sp=&lang=eng

[DaleP]

A very handy site for any Australians trying to ID a bird and learn a bit about them.

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/

[tupe]

International site - taxonomy, names and thumbnails of practically every species:

http://www.zooinstitutes.com/Zoology/Aves.html

[canondslruser]

All About Birds:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide

One of the best Owl Info pages on the web:
http://www.owlpages.com

[martis999]

Canberra Ornithologists Group has a good selection of photos for birds in the Australian Capitol Territory (Australia)
http://photogallery.canberrabirds.org.au/

[martis999]

Another good site for OZ birds

http://www.birdwatching-australia.com/

[canondslruser]

Bird Field Guide Online:
http://www.birdfieldguide.com

[canondslruser]

Here are some helpful and informative bird links for people living in Ontario and in particular the Ottawa area.

www.neilyworld.com (http://www.neilyworld.com) (a great site about birds in and around the Ottawa area and links to bird sites worldwide).

www.ofnc.ca (http://www.ofnc.ca) (Ottawa Field Naturalist Club). Many great links on that site as well.

www.ofo.ca (http://www.ofo.ca) (Ontario Field Orthinologists). Lots of useful info and an Ontario rare bird photo gallery.

OntBirds is an email list for Ontario bird sighting reports (mainly for rare birds and migration reports). However, most if not all Ontbird emails also get published to a site called www.virtualbirder.com, and often at about the same time. Occasionally there will be delays (usually during some holidays) as to when Ontbird emails get posted to the virtualbirder website. When you are on the virtualbirder website just click on BMail on the left-side menu. Then scroll down and click on OntBirds. A good website to know if you cannot get access to OntBird emails when at work.

www.virtualbirder.com



Enjoy.

[Matatazela]

Some Southern African Web Resources for birders. No hummingbirds or condors here, I'm afraid!

Outdoorphoto (http://www.outdoorphoto.co.za/forum/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=523)

SASOL Bird ID Wizard (http://www.birdlife.org.za/fieldguide/wizard/index.php)

Avian Demography Unit (http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/)

SASOL Fieldguide (http://www.birdlife.org.za/fieldguide/book/index.php) - Excellent Resource for SA

FatBirders (http://www.fatbirder.com/links_geo/africa/south_africa.html) SA Birding Page

[Helentbis]

May I humbly offer my own website.
www.redkites.net (http://www.redkites.net)

Regards

[AJ Montgomery]

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/
http://identify.whatbird.com/mwg/_/0/attrs.aspx
http://birdweb.org/birdweb/index.aspx
http://www.ebird.org/content/

[Ed Rotberg]

Some of my useful links, the first and the last are especially nice for me for birds outside North America.

World Bird Guide (http://www.mangoverde.com/birdsound/index.html)
Visual Key for Bird Identification (http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/birds/main/ident/bvk1.htm)
ENature's Field Guide (http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=1)
World Bird Gallery (http://www.wildbirdgallery.com/taxindex.htm)

= Ed =

[canondslruser]

Reporting site for Montreal area bird sightings. A Saw-Whet owl was reported on Saturday, November 4th in Laval, Quebec in the Papineau Woods (bois papineau). Link is here: http://bpqrarebirds.blogspot.com

A great website for Rare bird sightings in the province of Quebec can be found here (along with nice photos): http://www.oiseauxrares.qc.ca

[kolok]

Found this site to be interesting:

http://www.nearctica.com/birds/

Shows maps, descriptions, pictures as well as drawings of birds of Eastern North America.

[howzitboy]

odd site to have one but this tour company has great site on birds of Hawaii:

http://oahunaturetours.com/photogallery/birds/photobirdsindex.html

it has thumbnails and locations too.

[wcameron]

Here is a link - and an opportunity! I operate a website at www.MountainNature.com. It is an online guide to more than 800 plants, animals and birds. It receives in excess of a million page views annually and is constantly growing.

In terms of ID, you can ID a bird by latin name, common name, major group (diving ducks, shorebirds, etc.) or by genus. In time, we could even allow people to key by body shape, beak shape etc. There are not limits.

The challenge is that I am just one person. I am severely limited in access to good birding images. My personal archives are growing, and now that I've completely switched to digital I'm getting more and more good images but I doubt that I will ever get images of all the birds.

As I try to expand the coverage of the site I need good images. if anyone would be willing to allow us to use their images, we are happy to give them a bio page where they can promote their image sales and link to their website. While we don't have a budget to pay for images, we can give you access to a huge, highly targeted audience.

[Flo]

http://sdakotabirds.com/species_main.htm

[ghouse]

We have created a site for some of the wild birds in Australian backyards and their lifestyles. 16 species are already up, (another 16 will be added gradually).

www.wingedhearts.org (http://www.wingedhearts.org)

[LazyPhotographer]

I know I say this all the time, but once again - www.birdforum.net is one of the best places to verify an ID. Just upload your pics and ask the experts - it's very educational!

[mervin]

Here is one that I have always like.

http://www.orientalbirdimages.org/

[mikeb540]

i have seen alot of folks looking for raptor IDs, so i figured id post my falconry links, this should help , sorry if one of these has been posted already

http://www.wingmasters.net/species.htm

http://www.hawkingdirect.com/index.html

wingmasters has alot of good info

mike

[cedric_g]

Hello

For french speakers, you have the fabulous oiseaux.net (http://www.oiseaux.net) which has an english part ;)