Publications
  • NatureScape News - A fantastic birding and nature publication, with articles of interest, great photography, and wonderful writing. I write a monthly column called Hotline Digest, which highlights regional rarities and includes photos.

    Birder's Resources

  • eBird - Enter your birding data here! It will be the location of the ultimate distributional and range database. I'm addicted, you should be too.

  • Surfbirds - Birder's central. This place has everything! I'm a big fan of the North American Stop Press, which has pictures of tons of great rarities nationwide. One can also put their lists online here and compete with other listers.

  • NARBA - North American Rare Bird Alert. Sometimes this place has more detailed and current information on some of the phenomenal mega rarities in the country. Go through Internet Sightings Report link.

  • Birdingonthe.Net - THE place on the web to read list-servs and check RBAs. Under Rare Bird Alerts, I particularly enjoy the "Tough (ABA 2-5)" RBA Summaries.

  • RADAR Ornithology Lab - An EXCELLENT website about watching bird migration via RADAR. This happens more often than people think and in the spring and fall you can see it almost nightly on your local radar.

  • RAP Real-Time Weather - This is the NEXRAD source that I use to track migation. It's great because it allows you to dial up Reflectivity of Base Velocity for any NEXRAD station in the country for the past 5 days. This way, you can watch an entire evening of migration from start to finish.

  • Ornithological Records Committees - Paul Hertzel does a tremendous job of keeping this great resource current. All known avian records committees in the US and Canada.

    Regional Sites

  • Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology - Seeing as I'll be taking up residence in this state, starting in August, I anticipate this will be an important site. My initial impressions are that it's a rather thorough state page.

  • State College Bird Club - Likewise for this group, of which I'll shortly be a member. I'm excited it looks like an active organization! And I was worried Pennsylvania was a birding wasteland...

  • Michigan Bird Records Committee - This has been revamped to eliminate the Round by Round information. They've replaced it with a searchable database that brings up all accepted records for species, or county or date. However, I really miss seeing rejected records and what's happening in each round. Also some great pics of First State Records and the official Checklist!

  • Michigan Bird Listers - An annual compilation put together by Doug McWhirter of all the various lists kept in Michigan. Be sure to check out my top lists, including Keweenaw, Houghton, and Baraga County Big Years! As well, I put up formitable lists in those counties, the Keweenaw Peninsula, and the Upper Peninsula.

  • UP Birders - A fairly new website devoted to my home turf, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There's a list-serv, news, and some pictures.

  • The Minnesota Ornithologists' Union - Website of the MOU. All sorts of important info about birding in Minnesota.

  • Hawk Ridge - Homepage of the best Fall Hawk Migration in North America (I'm biased)! They list all their events and happenings and you can get daily count numbers when the hawks are moving.

    Personal Sites

  • Owlman's Boreal Owl Homepage - Bill Lane is the MAN in Minnesota for Boreal and Saw-whet Owls. Check out his page and sign up for an owl trip. Definately read his Blog, it's the highlight of the website!

  • Mike Hendrickson's Birding Website - A great source for birding information for Northeastern Minnesota. Mike is a great guide and has lots of up to date materials, including sightings and photos!

  • History of California Birding - Don Roberson has put together a birding website to end all websites. This one chronicles the formative years of birding and the people who made it happen. Amazing.

  • TimAveryBirding.com - I stumbled across this one recently and haven't fully explored it, yet. I knew of Tim when he was a bird photographer and general birding enthusiast in Indiana. He's changed venues to Utah and has put together a graphically impressive website. I love his Big Year page, and I'm excited to see what comes of Nocturnal migration.