ONLINE BIRDING RESOURCES

LOUISIANA LINKS

• LSU Louisiana Bird Resource Office
• Submit Important Bird Records (3x5)
• Lowery's abundance and seasonality graph
• Guide to Birding in Southeast Louisiana
• Recent postings from LABIRD-L
• Recent postings form HUMNET-L
• Recent postings from BIRDCHAT
• Louisiana Wildlife Federation
• Recent postings from Frontiers of Identification
• Louisiana Breeding Bird Atlas
• Louisiana Winter Bird Atlas
• Southwestern Louisiana Birding Locations by Paul Conover
• Louisiana: Shreveport Society for Nature Study
• Louisiana Pelagic Trips by John Sevenair
• Orleans Audubon Society
• Louisiana Birding Trails
• Bird Louisiana
• Louisiana Rare Bird Alert (archives only)

LOUISIANA MAILING LISTS

OTHER MAILING LISTS

• Other birding mail lists with subscription information.

OTHER LINKS

• A.C. Bent's Life Histories of North American Birds
• Bird Portal -- U.S. Fish and Wildlife
• Sibley Guides
• Birding on the Net -- excellent resource
• BIRDNET -- the web site of the Ornithological Council (representing the 9 major North American ornithological societies)
• American Birding Association -- including ABA Sales catalogue, now online
• Ornithological Web Library -- more than 1,000 birding links
• Electronic Resources on Ornithology
• www.birder.com
• The American Ornithological Union -- including Check-list of North American Birds
• All About Birds -- from Cornell
• North American Bird Banding Manual
• The Virtual Birder -- an e-zine for birders
• Birds of the Upper Texas Coast -- by David Sarkozi
• Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
• Where Do You Want To Go Birding Today?
• birding.com -- Birding.com has the answers to your birding questions.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

• Checklists
• Alabama Ornithological Society
• Carolina Bird Club
• Colorado Birding Society
• Colorado Field Ornithologists.
• Connecticut Ornithological Association
• Florida Ornithological Society
• Georgia Ornithological Society
• Illinois Ornithological Society
• Indiana Audubon Society
• Iowa Birds and Birding -- sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union
• Kansas Ornithological Society
• Maine: mainebirding.net
• Maryland Ornithological Society
• Massachusetts Birding Links
• Michigan Birding
• Minnesota Ornithologists' Union
• Missouri, Audubon Society of
• New Jersey Audubon Society
• New Jersey Bird Records Committee
• New Mexico Ornithological Society
• New York State Ornithological Association
• Ohio Birder Resources
• Oregon Field Ornithologists
• South Dakota Ornithologist's Union
• Tennessee Ornithological Society
• Texas Ornithological Society
• Virginia Society of Ornithology
• Washington Ornithological Society
• Wisconsin Society for Ornithological

• John Sevenair's Seabirds and Whales of Louisiana
• Shearwater Journeys
• Oregon Pelagic Trips
• Tony Palliser's Pelagic Page
• Brian Patteson's Site
• Westport Seabird Offshore Trips
• Focus on Nature Tours
• Pelagic Trips off New England, USA
• Albatross Encounter
• Puffin Trips in Maine, USA
• Pacific Seabird Group
• Ocean Wanderers
• Recent posts from the Pelagics Listserve

WEATHER

• U.S. Weather Maps from Intellicast
• NOAA Hurricane Satellite -- shows conditions in Yucatan and Central America
• Satellite Image of Gulf of Mexico
• Gulf of Mexico Rain Image
• Gulf of Mexico Radar Summary Image

 

• The National Weather Service (NWS)
• Interactive Weather Information Network -- from the NWS
• Louisiana Forecasts -- from NWS (text version)
• Marine Forecast - Gulf of Mexico -- from the NWS
• National Data Buoy Center from NOAA -- sea states and weather at buoys around the world
• Marine Forecasts -- from NOAA
• Earth Scan Laboratory -- Louisiana State University earth station for NOAA polar orbiting and geostationary satellites
• NOAA Coast Watch -- Gulf of Mexico Node

Using radar to study migration:

• Radar Ornithology Laboratory (ROL) at Clemson University
• --Radar Ornithology - Weather Data