Miscelaneous Links & Resources 

Species

All About Birds The Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Cornell University presents an online guide to birds and birdwatching.
WhatBird Identify birds of North America with a few clicks.
Animal Diversity Web Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.

Patuxent Bird Identification Info Center

 Photographs, songs, videos, identification tips, maps, and life history information for North American birds provided by the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.
BirdZilla Wild about wild birds!
Discover Life Online field guide.

Song

Macaulay Library The world's largest archive of wildlife sounds and videos by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
xeno-canto Dedicated to sharing bird sounds from all over the world.
Bird Calls and Songs Recordings and sonagrams of the bird sounds of eastern North America and beyond.
Mangoverde World Bird Guide An all volunteer project to create a freely accessible multimedia field guide to all of the world's bird species.
Bird-Sounds.net The songs and calls of 602 species of North American birds.
Nature Songs North American bird sounds - not just bird calls or bird songs, but all the sounds birds make, such as wing sounds and bill rattles.
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics Find the sound of your favorite bird, mammal, amphibian or insect in the BLB, one of the largest animal sound archives in the world.
Bird Songs Songs and calls of some New York State birds.
Wisconsin BBA Includes many Mass. species.
Minnesota Birding Trail Includes many Mass. species.

General Info

Sibley updates and corrections Updates and corrections for any of their books or guides.
AOS publications Includes AOS Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (7th Edition and Supplements).
ABA Checklist PDF / XLS printable checklists.
The Great Backyard Bird Count Bird watchers of all ages count birds to create a real-time snapshot of where birds are.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology  A world leader in the study, appreciation, and conservation of birds.
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center The Center develops and manages national inventory and monitoring programs and is responsible for the North American Bird Banding Program.
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) ABC is the Western Hemisphere's bird conservation specialist — the only organization with a single and steadfast commitment to achieving conservation results for birds and their habitats throughout the Americas.
Birdability… because birding is for everybody! Birdability focuses on removing barriers to access for birders with mobility challenges, blindness or low vision, intellectual or developmental disabilities (including autism), mental illness, being Deaf or Hard of Hearing and other health concerns.
BLM Strategic Plan for Migratory Bird Conservation Direct link to pdf, published 4/16/2013 by the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Databases

eBird eBird provides rich data sources for basic information on bird abundance and distribution at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
Birding Hotspots Discover tips, descriptions, maps, and images for thousands of eBird hotspots.
Results by Count
Results by Species		 Audubon Christmas Bird Count results. Also of interest: Dec. 2015 116th CBC Circles.
Avian Knowledge Network (AKN) AKN partners act to improve awareness, purpose, access to, and use of data and tools at scales ranging from individual locations to administrative regions (e.g., management areas, states, countries) and species ranges.
North American Breeding Bird Survey Estimates of trend (interval-specific estimates of population change), annual indices of abundance, and maps of abundance and population change for the more than 400 species of North American birds.
HawkCount Count data and site profiles for over 275 North American Hawkwatch sites.

Literature Search

SORA The Searchable Ornithological Research Archive is the world's first and largest open access ornithological publications archive.
BirdNet An online repository of information about the science of ornithology, and about issues of interest to ornithologists.
Google Scholar From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites.
MD/DC Records Committee Index of articles on species identification (pdf)

Migration

Radar Technology - A Tool for Understanding Migratory “Aerofauna” USGS, Fort Collins Science Center
BirdCast Bird Migration Forecasts in real time.
Tom Auer's Blog Thoughts on the Migration, Distribution, and Phenology of North American Birds.
Badbirdz Reloaded From March to May and from August to October you will find daily posts regarding bird migration over Florida.

Nest Cams

Du Bois Library Falcons UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA
New Balance Falcon Cam New Balance, Lawrence, MA
Meet the River Hawks UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA
Felix Neck Owl Cam Felix Neck, Martha's Vineyard.
Woods Hole Osprey Cam Quissett Campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
OspreyCam Allyn Cox Reservation in Essex, MA.
Ravens at Wellesley Wellesley’s Science Center, Wellesley, MA.

A Random Collection

Banding Codes "Real birders use four-letter words."
Gull Banding Key
Gull Banding Institutions		 From Bird Observer Vol. 44, No. 5
Bird Dictionary Dictionary of birdwatching terminology.
IOC World Bird List An up-to-date classification of world birds and set of recommended English names.
The History of North American Bird Names In the  American Ornithologists' Union Checklists 1886 - 2000.
The Feather Atlas Promotes feather identificaton, research, and appreciation by providing high-resolution scans of the flight feathers of North American birds.
The Rule of Twelfths The tide cycle, simplified.

General Nature

Google Scholar From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center The nation’s first laboratory dedicated to wildlife research.
eNature.com The site's core content of wildlife information about almost 6,000 individual species is the same data set used to create the printed Audubon Field Guides. 
Discover Life On-line tools to identify species, teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing, interactive encyclopedia of life with 1,000,000+ species pages.
NatureServe Explorer An authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada.
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan.
USFWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS Ecosystems U.S. Geological Survey

Mammals

Mammals of New England Photos and information.
Smithsonian Institution North American mammals.
MassWildlife Direct link to Pocket Guide to MA Animal Tracks (pdf)
Mammals in Massachusetts The present list recognizes 104 species.

Fish

Museum of Comparative Zoology Ichthyology Department at Harvard Univeristy.

Amphibians & Reptiles

Mass. Dept. of Fish & Game State Reptiles & Amphibians List.
AmphibiaWeb Provides information on amphibian declines, natural history, conservation, and taxonomy.
Animal Diversity Web (ADW) Frog calls.
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center North American Amphibian Monitoring Program.
The Vernal Pool Association An independent group of individuals attempting to educate others about vernal pool ecology, the local environment, bio-diversity, and the protection of our resources.
UMass Amherst Snakes of Massachusetts

Moths & Butterflies

Butterflies Ed Lam's web site.
Butterflies of Massachusetts List of species accounts.
Massachusetts Butterfly Atlas Mass Audubon.

Damselflies & Dragonflies

Dragonflies & Damselflies of southern New England Ode News (Blair Nikula).
Damselflies and Dragonflies Ed Lam's web site.
A Selection of Massachusetts Dragonflies and Damselflies Photography by Glenn Corbiere.
Odonata Fauna of Connecticut Scans of the 148 species of odonates and information on identification, distribution, flight activity, habitats, behavior, and conservation status of this fauna. 

Other Insects

BugGuide.net Identification, images, & information for insects, spiders & their kin for the United States & Canada.
Singing Insects of North America (SINA) To help users identify all species of crickets and katydids from America north of Mexico and the common species of Florida cicadas.
InsectIdentification.org Guide to identification.

Plants

https://www.audubon.org/native-plants Audubon native plants database.
https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder National Wildlife Federation native plant finder.
https://www.thatsaplentyfarm.com That’s A Plenty Farm
https://www.toadshade.com Toadshade Wildflower Farm
GoBotany Discover thousands of New England plants.
Native Plant Trust The nation’s oldest plant conservation organization and a recognized leader in native plant conservation, horticulture, and education.
Discover Life Keys to identifying wildflowers.
MyWildflowers.com Wildflowers from the trails of western Pennsylvania and beyond.
Wildflowers of the Westborough Reservoir Includes a calendar of blooming time.
Connecticut Botanical Society A group of amateur and professional botanists who share an interest in the plants and habitats of Connecticut and the surrounding region.
What Tree is That? The Arbor Day Foundation.

Massachusetts Nature

Animal Tracks Den Information on animals and their tracks.
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