Resources: A Collection of Birding Links
Compiled by: Rick Hollis, Karen Disbrow, Donna Warner and Linda Quinn
Blogs
10,000 Birds One of the earlier blogs, but with staying power. Birds, conservation, travel, with good content. http://www.10000birds.com/about
Accidental Birders https://theaccidentalbirder.com/birding-trips/ Blogs on traveling worldwide to find birds.
David Sibley’s blog, https://www.sibleyguides.com/blog/
Jerry’s bird photography and blog https://birdingthroughglass.blogspot.com/
Jeff Jones blog https://www.birdoculars.com/
Ornithologist Geoffrey Hill https://www.ornithologistsblog.com/about
Sharon Stiteler the author’s blog http://www.birdchick.com/blog
ZEISS Nature Blog. https://blogs.zeiss.com/sports-optics/birding/en/
Columns
Nature’s Migration Delights: A Cyber-Tour During a Season of Confinement Collection of articles from Audubon.org takes you on a virtual tour around the country during spring songbird migration. Article VII stops in Iowa, author Tom Taylor’s boyhood home. Click each Article (not the text next to Article) for the link.
Article I Nesting Santa Fe Hummingbirds
Article II Early Spring Changes
Article III To Port Aransas
Article IV North Texas Coast
Article IX Iowa to Wisconsin
Article V Central Kansas
Article VI Plains to Midwest Woodlands
Article VII Southeast Iowa Transit
Article VIII Backyard Birding Bonanza
Article X Return to New Mexico
E-news / List Serve
All About Birds E-news, read or sign up for email https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/
Bird Note Subscribe to the podcast delivered via email https://ebird.org/home
Nature 365 is a web-documentary of moments of nature. Delivered each day to your inbox is a link to short video, set in wilderness north woods and prairies, that frequently features birds. http://nature365.tv/
Facebook Groups
Bird Banding at F W Kent Park https://www.facebook.com/groups/KentBirdBanding
IBird: Iowa Birding, Information, Reports and Discussion https://www.facebook.com/groups/970468873001383
Iowa Birding https://www.facebook.com/groups/iowabirding
Iowa City Bird Club https://www.facebook.com/groups/830060220397361
Learning / Instruction
Bird Academy Collection of Courses, prices vary. https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/course-list/
Bird Academy Open Lectures https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/live-events/
Bird ID https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/learning-games/
Birds Canada has free courses https://www.birdscanada.org/learn/
eBird Essentials: Free! Five short lessons with videos for understanding how and why to use eBird to create bird checklists and more. Includes using eBird in the field, at your feeder, and during your travels. https://ebird.org/news/ebird-essentials
How to Know the Birds Lessons from the author Ted Floyd https://www.aba.org/how-to-know-the-birds-by-ted-floyd/
National Geographic Guide to Birding in North America from The Great Courses, 24 video lectures for sale price of $29.95 https://www.thegreatcourses.com/fb7782?ai=187590&cmp=Social_Facebook_Advertising_2020Birding&fbclid=IwAR1Xfnez8VUoY9RvgcGca8hrNads90zlV60mh4qktuJ663B4mbr35y1rIUg
Solving Sparrows is a one-hour video presentation on sparrow ID. Instructor is humorous and helpful with tips for how to “be with sparrows and learn to look at them.” https://northbranchnaturecenter.org/online/nature/ scroll down to Solving Sparrows. By Bryon Pfieffer, May 1ro
Podcasts
American Birding Podcast Weekly thirty-minute podcast from American Birding Association. Features news and happenings, recent rarities, with guests from around the birding world. https://www.aba.org/podcast/
Bird Note Subscribe to this daily, two-minute radio show. https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows
Lange Eliot, Music of Nature Podcast Series https://musicofnature.com/podcast-series/
Ray Brown’s Talking Bird Podcast Weekly, 30-minute radio show about birds and conservation http://www.talkinbirds.com/
Podcasts for Bird Watchers, several channels! https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/podcasts.php
Radar
Bird Cast: Good a general discussion on radar at https://birdcast.info/forecast/understanding-birds-and-radar/
Radar Maps: A tool for observing bird migration. This gives you radar from 3 PM to 3PM https://www.pauljhurtado.com/US_Composite_Radar/
Watch Bird Cams and Videos
Bird Academy Video Collection from Cornell Lab. 200 instructional and informative videos on everything from bird behavior, song, migration, to ID tips and more. Free and searchable. https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/media-library/
Cornell Lab Bird Cams https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/
Monterey Bay Avery Cam https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/aviary-cam
The Raptor Resource Project raptorresource.org Nonprofit based in Decorah, IA
Websites
https://abcbirds.org/ American Bird Conservancy
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with games for kids.
https://www.audubon.org/ National Audubon Society- So much here!
https://www.audubon.org/birding/backyard Backyard Birding for the whole family
https://www.audubon.org/bird-guide their field guide
https://www.audubon.org/birding lots of articles, more choices. Check out pull down menus
https://birdwatchinghq.com/ Backyard Birding and Bird Cams
https://www.birdscanada.org/category/features-posts/
https://ebird.org/home Enter your sightings and be part of citizen-science data, world-wide.
https://iowaaudubon.org/ State chapter of Audubon Society with focus on conservation. Periodic newsletters. Read & Join!
https://iowabirds.org/ Iowa Ornithologists’ Union bringing together birders of all skill levels. Contains a plethora of information, so helpful to birding in Iowa. Read & Join!
https://www.iowacitybirdclub.org/ Iowa City Bird Club for birders in eastern Iowa. Check out photos on Birds of Iowa tab by local bird photographers. Enjoy & Join!
https://johnmuirlaws.com/ Nature Drawing and Journaling, also teacher/parent info
https://ornithology.com/ ornithologist Dr. Roger Lederer, varied multi subject