Pacific Southwest Research Station

• Partners in Flight Home Pages
  • PIF Research and Monitoring Needs Database
• Federal Agency Ornithological Projects
• Educational Institutions and Ornithological Societies
• Bird Observatories
• Birding Guides, Organized Counts, and General Information
• Publications
• Other Environmental Monitoring Programs

Partners in Flight Home Pages

• National Partners in Flight: http://www.PartnersInFlight.org/
• National PIF Bird Conservation Plans: http://www.blm.gov/wildlife/pifplans.htm
• Cape May 1995 PIF International Workshop: Strategies for Bird Conservation: the Partners in Flight Planning Process. R. Bonney, D.N. Pashley, R.J. Cooper, and L. Niles, eds.
• U.S. Department of Defense Partners in Flight: http://www.dodpif.org
• Arizona Partners in Flight: http://mirror-pole.com/apif_web/
• California Partners in Flight: http://www.prbo.org/calpif/
• Colorado Partners in Flight: http://www.rmbo.org/pif/copif.html
• Oregon/Washington Partners in Flight: http://www.orwapif.org/
• Partners in Flight--Canada: http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/birds/lb_ot_e.cfm

Federal Agency Ornithological Projects

• Landbird Monitoring, Redwood Sciences Laboratory, U.S.D.A. Forest Service
• U.S.G.S. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/
  • Bird Banding Laboratory: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Bird Habitat Conservation
• Environmental Protection Agency
• EPA and Bird Conservation: http://www.epa.gov/owow/birds/

Educational Institutions and Ornithological Societies

• Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/
• BIRDNET, Ornithological Information Source, presented by the Ornithological Council: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/. This also includes links to many of the ornithological societies (some are listed below).
• Ornithological Societies of North America (OSNA): http://www.osnabirds.org/
• North American Banding Council: http:nabanding.net/nabanding/
• American Ornithologists' Union (AOU): http://www.aou.org
• Association of Field Ornithologists: http://www.afonet.org/index.html
• Colonial Waterbird Society: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/CWS/
• Pacific Seabird Group: http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org
• Cooper Ornithological Society: http://www.cooper.org
• Wilson Ornithological Society: http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/birds/wos.html
• Raptor Research Foundation: http://biology.boisestate.edu/raptor/
• National Audubon Society http://www.audubon.org/
• Bird Banding Associations
• Western Bird Banding Association (WBBA): http://www.westernbirdbanding.org/
• Inland Bird Banding Association (IBBA): http://aves.net/inlandbba/
• Eastern Bird Banding Association (EBBA): http://www.frontiernet.net/~bpbird/
• Ontario Bird Banding Association (OBBA, Canada): http://ontbanding.org/
• American Bird Conservancy: http://www.abcbirds.org
• Smithsonian Institute Migratory Bird Center: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/
• British Trust for Ornithology: http://www.bto.org/
• Puerto Rican Ornithological Society (PROS)/Sociedad Ornitologica Puertorriquena: http://www.avesdepuertorico.org

Bird Observatories

• Alaska Bird Observatory: http://www.alaskabird.org/
• Cape May Bird Observatory (New Jersey): http://www.njaudubon.org/Centers/CMBO/
• Klamath Bird Observatory: http://www.klamathbird.org/
• Long Point Bird Observatory (Ontario, Canada): http://www.bsc-eoc.org/Lpbo.html
• PRBO Conservation Science (California): http://www.prbo.org/cms/
  (formerly known as Point Reyes Bird Observatory)
• Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences: http://www.manomet.org/

For more Western Hemisphere bird observatories, please see Migration Monitoring Network Banding Stations and Observatories.

Birding Guides, Organized Counts, General Ornithological Information

• Landbird Migration Monitoring Network of the Americas (LaMMNA): http://www.klamathbird.org/lammna/: A network recently formed, that is designed to increase coordination between cooperating stations and, in particular, will form a mechanism for central coordination to providing support, data management, data archiving, and data analysis. New addition to list.
• EBird: http://ebird.org/content/: This site collects information from any and all birders. Submit your own observations to keep track of your sightings or search thier database for birds in any area in North America. New addition to list.
• Birdingonthe.Net -- Birding for the 21st Century: http://birdingonthe.net/: this site contains links to interesting birding subjects, equipment, mail postings, chat rooms and links around the world.
• Ornithological Web Libraries: http://aves.net/the-owl/, includes searchable bibliographies and databases on bird sightings around the world, endangered bird programs, film and sound libraries, and links to Bird Observatories and Ringing Stations (under http://aves.net/the-owl/blnkobsv.htm)
• Canadian Migration Monitoring Network: http://www.bsc-eoc.org/national/cmmn.html
• The Peregrine Fund: http://www.peregrinefund.org
• Information on Mist nets: http://www.afonet.org/english/mistnets.html or http://www.avinet.com
• Pacific Coast Joint Venture: http://www.pcjv.org/

Publications

• Ornithological Newsletter: http://www.osnabirds.org
• "Canadian Landbird Monitoring Strategy", Environment Canada: http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/birds/strat_e.cfm
• U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan: http://www.fws.gov/shorebirdplan/

Links to Other Environmental Monitoring Programs:

Last updated on July 20, 2007

Research is being conducted by:

• C.J. Ralph