Here are some websites that have a nice variety of information for birders. These are all non-commercial sites, though some do contain offers of books and software for sale. Not all of the links on all of the pages work, but they all do contain much interesting and helpful information. I am not including birding magazine websites at this time, but may add them later.

If any of you know of other good sites that you have enjoyed, please e-mail me the information and I will check them for possible inclusion here.

These sites contain a variety of information on feeding wild birds. Some of them have some very nice charts of the food and feeder preferences of various birds. You will also find tips for handling unwanted “guests” and answers to questions you may have.

Wild Bird Centers
http://www.birdware.com/tips.htm

Virginia Cooperative Extension
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/wildlife/420-006/420-006.html

Backyard Wildlife: Feeding Birds
http://www.unl.edu/pubs/Wildlife/g669.htm

Backyard Bird Feeding.
http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/by/feed.html

Make the Most of Your Backyard Bird Feeding
http://www.bobvila.com/birds.htm

Project Feeder Watch website, sponsored by Cornell University:
http://birds.cornell.edu/PFW/

Here are some web sites that contain free plans that you can use to make your own bird feeders and birdhouses.

USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: contains links to plans for several bird houses and feeders, as well as photography blinds. The second link is a nice chart of specifications for nesting boxes for several different types of birds. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/tools/ndblinds/ndblinds.htm http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/tools/birdhous/specs.htm

Feathers and Flowers 2000: free plans for several types of birdhouses
http://birding.miningco.com/hobbies/birding/library/weekly/aa022800a.htm

Alabama Cooperative Extension Service: A 4-H Woodworking plan for a bird feeder http://www.aces.edu/department/extcomm/publications/youth/yanr/yanr-8/yanr-8.htm

A Woodworking site with a plan for a bird feeder
http://woodworking.miningco.com/hobbies/woodworking/library/weekly/aa101298.htm

Contains bird feeding information and a link to a plan for a bluebird house kit designed for 8 to 12 year olds to assemble. Could be a good VBS craft project!
http://www.nearctica.com/nathist/birds/feeder.htm

And extension forestry site containing general guidelines for building songbird boxes. Also contains links to other working with wildlife sites.
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/forest/steward/www16.html

These web sites have information that will help in identification of birds. They could be very useful to those who do not have a good field guide.

Patuxent Bird Identification Center: This site has photos and information to aid in the identification of a large number of North American wild birds. It could be very useful to those who do not have a good field guide.
http://www.mbr.nbs.gov/bbs/ident.html
http://www.mbr.nbs.gov/id/framlst/framlst.html

Peterson Online: This one also contains photos and profiles for identification of common North American birds, though it is more limited in the number of birds it profiles.
http://www.petersononline.com/

General Interest Sites:

National Audubon Society/ Audubon Magazine
www.audubon.org

Bird Studies Canada
www.bsc-eoc.org/bscmain.html

Backyard Birding
http://www.bcpl.net/~tross/by/backyard.html

Wildbirds.com
http://www.wildbirds.com/

O.W.L. Ornithological Web Library: Links to non-commercial sites devoted to the study of wild birds.
http://www.aves.net/the-owl/

Great Outdoor Recreation Pages
http://www.gorp.com/gorp/activity/birding.htm

Birdcast: Birding links
http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~siler/birdlinks.html

Birding in Canada: has links for Birding Hotspots pages by provinces, also links to similar pages for other countries or continents.
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/birdcanada.htm

[This message has been edited by Cathy Sears (edited December 11, 2000).]

Would you like to watch peregrine falcons nest and raise their young? Now you can, without even leaving your home, thanks to the Canadian Peregrine Foundation. Webcams have been set up at three peregrine nesting sites, and you can view photos of these falcon families any time during daylight hours. These are not video clips, but the photos will refresh every 60 seconds. There is also a daily log of the birds’ activities. The fledglings are fitted with transmitters, and you can follow their journeys by clicking on the Project Track ‘em link. http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca

It seems that the camera at the Ottawa site is not being operated at this time, as the photo has not been updated since January 16, but the log is being kept up to date.

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Backyard Birdwatch http://www2.abc.net.au/science/birds/default.htm

An online field guide to common Australian birds. See photos of a few of the birds mentioned by our Australian members.

Thanks to Mikk for sharing this site with us.

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