• Jack Siler's Birding Links - The first, and still the best, birding site on the web.
• Bird Conservation Links - From the US Environmental Protection Agency, a compact compendium of government, NGO, and many other sites to help you get started on the daunting task of conserving bird populations for future generations. The best place to start!
• BIRDNET - Electronic Ornithological Information from the Ornithological Council. Links to professional ornithological societies and LOTS more!
• Checklist of Bird of USA/Canada (excluding Hawaii) - 909 species, incorporating the latest AOU splits and lumps, courtesy of Pete Thayer.
• Bird Checklists of the United States - a growing and useful resource from the Northern Prairie Science Center
• Bird Links of the World - Denis LePage's comprehensive and well organized list of links (in English and Francais). If you can't find a birding fact here, it probably doesn't exist on the Web!
• The Birds of North America page - check out the progress on this monumental work - especially if you are a reference librarian!
• Searchable bibliography of avian research - heavily biased toward waterfowl, but a very useful resource
• The Virtual Birder - a comprehensive and ever-changing collection of sites of interest to the birdwatcher, courtesy of Don Crockett.
• Backyard Birding homepage - From the Baltimore Bird Club, an excellent source for ideas on making your yard more bird-friendly.
• Bird Monitoring in North America - Maintained by the National Biological Service, this informative site will provide you with data, maps, and lots of other useful information about North American bird populations, gleaned from the hard work of dedicated volunteers.
• Play the Patuxent Bird Quiz Game - Map quiz and photo ID quiz
• CATS INDOORS! - a new initiative from The American Bird Conservancy, designed to reduce the feline predation that kills BILLIONS of birds every year in North America. Includes informative material, camera-ready ads, and links to other useful sites.
• The Australian Pelagic Bird Page Got an urge to go down under to see scores of pelagic birds you will never see in Kansas? Take a look at this virtual tour of the Southern Ocean, and you might never come back!
• Birds, Birds, Birds - comprehensive list of links to many bird-oriented web sites, including pictures of Middle Eastern Birds, veterinary information, and lots more!
• North American Bluebird Society - For beautiful pictures and lots of information about one of North America's most beloved birds.
• Louis Aggasiz Fuertes bird sketches from Cornell - Unpublished sketches from one of the greatest wildlife artists, from his field notebooks for a trip to the Pacific Northwest/Alaska in the early 1900's
• Birder's Home Page - A marvelous collection of birding stuff, including other newsletters, links to bird photo galleries, checklists, and lots more!

• Submit your Kansas Rare Bird Report and help us keep track of the birds in Kansas
• International Shorebird Survey - Organized by the Manomet Bird Observatory
• Ontario Owl Survey
• Many projects from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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  • Project Feeder Watch
  • House Finch Conjunctivitis Survey
  • Classroom Feeder Watch
  • Project Pigeon Watch
  • Birds in Forested Landscapes
  • Cornell Nest Box Network
  • Cerulean Warbler Project
• North American Migration Count
• Christmas Bird Census
• Kansas Winter Bird Feeder Survey
• Bluebird Trail Monitoring in KS
• The Great Backyard Bird Count - sponsored by National Audubon and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, this is an interactive citizen science prototype. Enter your count data and watch as all the data are used to generate maps and constantly updated summaries.

• Breeding bird atlas data for many US states and Canadian provinces
• Georgia
• Washington
• Wisconsin
• Kansas
• San Diego County (CA)
• Los Angeles County (CA)
• South Dakota
• Oregon
• Nevada
• Kentucky (Check this one out!)

Shopping - for birders and for the birds!

• Shade-grown Coffee - Help save bird habitat in Central America by purchasing only shade-grown coffee. Read about this initiative and order coffee from the Smithsonian Museum Migratory Bird Center.
• ABA Sales - Books, Binoculars, Scopes and more!