Ecology: Birds

This comprehensive reference covers the life histories of North American birds. This database provides detailed scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada. It also includes filmclips and audiorecordings.

eBird is the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizen science project, with more than 100 million bird sightings contributed each year by eBirders around the world. A collaborative enterprise with hundreds of partner organizations, thousands of regional experts, and hundreds of thousands of users, eBird is managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

SORA is the largest open access ornithological publications archive.

Website dedicated to sharing bird sounds from all over the world

Explore how birds are built with Bird Academy’s virtual bird. Turn on and off each system and target particular parts to learn more about them and how to pronounce their names.

This site merges the book A Guide to Field Guides: Identifying the Natural History of North America by Diane Schmidt, Emeritus Biology Librarian at the University of Illinois, and its companion Web site International Field Guides. After the publisher returned copyright to the book, the author decided to combine the two products and create a searchable database of field guides for plants, animals, and other objects in North America and around the world.