CA
MacDonald Birding Hotspots Around the World |
 A
very high quality website with lots of excellent information on birds all
around the world, with information
listed by country , and lots of photographs
of birds of the world. |
| The
Owl Pages |
This
website has a list of all
the world's owls, some of which it describes in detail on separate
pages. There's also a very good website
links page. |
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 A
grass-roots organization devoted to promoting knowledge about hummingbirds.
Includes a
photo gallery with spectacular images, and a
searchable
hummingbird database. Last visited in July of 2005. |
| About.Com
birdwatching pages |
About.Com
is a website with information and chat groups about any and every topic
under the sun. The birdwatching pages are a good place to start
when researching any bird subject, including descriptions and photographs
of many of the world's birds. There's an alphabetical list
of birds of the world, a bird
photo library and a section
on photographing birds. |
| Ornithological
Web Library (OWL) |
An
excellent list of bird websites. |
| Bird
Links to the World |
A
list of over 8000 links to birding websites around the world. |
| Bird
Families of the World |
This
website covers the 202 bird families of the world, with a page devoted
to each family; it's a work in progress, so not every family has a page
yet. The pages have good descriptive text of the family, along
with photographs of family members. |
| Mark
Cassino's "Page 2000" website |
This
private individual's website is packed with very high quality and very
artistically photographed birds, as well as other subjects of general interest. |
| International
Crane Foundation |
A
very professional website which provides lots of information about the
world's 15 species of crane. |
| Hummingbird.Net |
This
excellent website contains lots of information about North American hummingbirds.
Contains excellent photos and descriptions of all the North American species.
Watch what happens to your cursor when you move it around in the browser
window! |
| Australasian
bird image database |
 Tom
and Marie Tarrant's Australasian bird image database seems to be somewhat
unsure of its purpose; the <title> tag says that it's the "Australian
bird image database", but inside they do indeed call this the Australasian
bird image database, defining Australasia as Australia, New Zealand, Papua
New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
They host many photos (5522 when I visited) supplied by different people
in photo galleries arranged by family or by species. Last visited
in January of 2007. |
| New
Zealand birds |
A
somewhat depressing website which starts by listing how many of the native
birds have become extinct, but has good birdwatching
trip reports and links, and a comprehensive list
of New Zealand birds together with photographs and very good descriptions.
Unfortunately, some parts of the website use only the native Maori names
of the birds, which might be wonderfully Politically Correct, but very
unhelpful. After all, the Maori are relatively recent migrants
to New Zealand, just like Europeans! |
| Department
of Conservation: Birds |
The
Department of Conservation (or "Doc", as it's usually called) is the government
department charged with nature management in New Zealand. This
website has a very good set of pages describing endemic birds.
Last visited in January of 2008. |
| Tiritiri
Matangi Bird Sanctuary |
About
an hour by ferry from downtown Auckland, the
island of Tiritiri Matangi is a sanctuary with many very rare
species which are difficult to see anywhere else. This
sanctuary is a must see for people interested in birds, but the website
lacks photographs and isn't updated often. Last visited in
June of 2006. |
| Kakapo
Recovery Programme |
This
very nicely done website starts by telling you that there are 6 billion
humans on the planet, but only 36 kakapo, the world's largest parrot and
flightless and nocturnal, to boot! As the website starts up, you'll
hear the bizarre un-birdlike "booming" call it makes. |
| New
Zealand Penguins |
This
website has information about the seven varieties of penguin which make
their home around the New Zealand coastline. Good photos of
the penguins are included, along with information about where they can
be viewed. The list of viewing sites even includes wild penguin
viewing sites in Australia, South America and South Africa, and zoos in
the UK, USA and South America. |
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