On This Page:  you'll find links to sources in the following categories:

Bird Watching Websites and Directories
Conservation and Environmental Protection Groups
Travel and Ecotourism
Wild Bird Watching Organizations and Clubs
Bird Product Resources
Bird Webrings 

Bird Watching Websites and Directories

• The World of Hummingbirds is designed to be the ultimate resource center for everything related to hummingbirds. Any information about hummingbirds you would ever want can be easily accessible with just a few clicks. This information is free and can be used to create a hummingbird farm right outside your own home for you, your family, your friends, and your neighbors to enjoy.
• Easy Bird Watching Guide is a website authored by John Lynn. He shares his bird watching experience with a wonderful focus on photographing the incredible birds of Singapore.
• Bird Friends of San Diego County is a website authored by Scott Streit. Scott is a talented photographer and shows us his outstanding collection of the birds of San Diego, along with bird descriptions.
• Dean Birders is an organization devoted to sharing the hobby of birdwatching with those that have difficulty getting out and about. With the help of volunteers they set up feeder stations and nesting boxes in the gardens of those people that are either elderly or have a disability and are limited to the house. The Dean Birder's website covers birdwatching information, a gallery, and daily photo reports from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, UK and is maintained by and for disabled and housebound birdwatchers.
• Birding Guide offers a list of birds by family, information on bird watching, links to birding forums, trip reports and a state by state list of birding clubs.
• Super Top 100 is a directory offering a myriad of categories. For bird links choose Science/Nature and click on birds for some good sites to visit.
• Bluebirds of San Diego County offers some good bluebird information. Learn about their mission to start a bluebird trail of nestboxes in San Diego County. 

Conservation--Environmental--Protection Groups

• National Audubon Society is national network of community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational programs, and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird populations. Audubon engages millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive conservation experiences. Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
• American Bird Conservancy is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, whose mission is to conserve wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. It is the only United States-based group dedicated solely to overcoming the greatest threats facing birds in the Western Hemisphere. A growing human population, consuming ever greater resources, is critically impacting bird populations through habitat destruction, direct mortality from such harmful practices as the unwise use of pesticides, and the introduction of destructive species including domestic cats. ABC believes adequate resources exist to overcome these threats, and that unifying people, organizations, and agencies around common approaches to priority issues is the key to success. If you own a cat be sure to check out their Cats Indoors program.
• Project Bird Watch / The Indonesian Parrot Project is an all-volunteer group committed to the conservation of Indonesia's parrots and cockatoos. They are a non-profit corporation, whose mission is: helping to conserve endangered Indonesian Cockatoos and Parrots -- helping provide sustainable income for local villages to reduce trapping of Cockatoos and Parrots -- serving as a source of information and education related to Indonesian Parrots and Cockatoos -- improving the welfare of parrots in captivity using lessons learned from their life in the wild
• Parrots International (PI) is a tax exempt, non-profit organization with the goal of benefiting parrots everywhere by promoting and fostering international cooperation. PI's ambition is to promote the conservation of endangered parrot species and to improve the lives of companion parrots. They work in cooperation with other conservation organizations, donors, field research teams, responsible aviculturists and parrot clubs to propose, develop and fund conservation projects throughout the world. PI supports conservation via aviculture and emphasize in situ conservation with the premise that . . .conservation happens in the wild. They also promote the education of the public and parrot owners on the proper care and unique requirements of healthy, happy companion parrots. Their website offers some wonderful videos.
• Tropical Nature - Conservation Through Ecotourism. Tropical Nature is the world leader in Conservation through Ecotourism. They are a non-profit organization that uses ecotourism to effectively create new conservation areas. Tropical Nature heads a system of lodges and travel agencies all working for conservation.
• Rainforest Preservation Foundation. The mission of the Rainforest Preservation Foundation is to buy and preserve pristine rainforest. For $25.00 they can buy and preserve an acre of rainforest. Furthermore, they educate Brazilians on better farming methods and how to live in the rainforest by gathering and not destroying it. They also reclaim devastated land by reforestation and rotational farming. By reforesting reclaimed lands, or lands that have been recently harvested, using methods that don't create a monoculture animals and birds are encouraged to return. The Foundation has been successful in placing over eight million acres of rainforest into trust and is training people in numerous villages in the proper farming and harvesting methods.
• Macaw Landing Foundation is a non-profit corporation operated entirely by volunteers dedicated to the preservation of macaws through research, public education and ecotourism. Don't miss their website and learn how you may be able to help.
• World Wildlife Fund - Macaws. The World Wildlife Fund is best known for its work to conserve endangered species, but they also work to protect people and nature against threats such a climate change and the use of toxic chemicals. Visit this site to learn more about protection of macaws in the wild. The website offers another link to Hyacinth Macaws providing further information, pictures and downloadable video clips.
• The Wild Connection is a non-profit corporation promoting education, rescue, rehabilitation and enrichment of parrots in captivity and strives to develop programs to protect endangered parrot species in their natural environment. Website includes links to other conservation and protection organizations, bird photos and video clips.
• The Peregrine Fund works nationally and internationally to conserve birds of prey in nature.
• Bat Conservation International, Inc. mission is to teach people the value of bats, to protect and conserve critical bat habitats, and to advance scientific knowledge through research. Animal Protection Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is devoted to advocacy for the protection of animals from cruetly and exploitation.
• American Birding Association's Birders' Exchange If you've been birding for awhile you may have some old binoculars or other birding equipment that you can donate to a worthy cause. The Birder's Exchange would like to put your unneeded equipment to good use. Visit this website to learn about their program to aid the conservation of Neotropical migrants and resident birds by providing equipment needed in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Travel and Ecotourism

• Tropical Nature Travel is part of the Tropical Nature network. All net proceeds of Tropical Nature Travel support conservation projects throughout the Tropical Nature system (Tropical Nature - Conservation Through Ecotourism). From the first telephone call to the final trip home their travelers are attended to by expert personnel who know the lay of the land. And every step of the way tourist dollars are reinvested into new projects.
• Inka Natura Travel offers the best of the Peruvian rainforest and archaelogy. All net proceeds benefit conservation. Inka Natura Travel is 100% owned by Peru Verde a conservation organization affiliated with the Tropical Nature Conservation System. Visit Peru Verde to learn more about their conservation work, ecotourism and Rainforest Conservation Shop.
• Victor Emanuel Nature Tours was founded in 1976. Since that time, they have become the largest company in the world to specialize in birding tours.
• The Independent Traveler's Guide-Wild Macaws. Do you yearn to see macaws flying in the wild? Is your budget a little thin for the fancy guided tours? Check out this website for information on independent travel to the destinations you dream about.
• Visit Valley of Las Alpujarras in Andalucia for a birding adventure in Southern Spain. Los Piedaos is a beautiful olive farm of beautiful and enchanting stone cottages. The secluded cottages are located in a bowl of mountains and have been lovingly restored by their architect-owner. Los Piedaos offers self-catering, a pretty pool and is wheelchair-friendly. Located near Granada, mountain villages and Costa Tropical. Visit website, click on Activities Here for birding information.
• U.S. Department of State Travel Warnings and Consular Information Sheets keeps you informed about travel to foreign countries and safe travel tips.

Wild Bird Watching Organizations/Clubs

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a nonprofit membership institution whose mission is to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds.
• Audubon has a mission of conserving and restoring natural ecosystems focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
• The Nature Conservancy is a membership organization whose mission is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
• Roger Tory Peterson Institute is a non-profit nature organization whose mission is to create passion for and knowledge of the natural world in the hearts and minds of children by inspiring and guiding the study of nature in our schools and communities.

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