There are many websites devoted to birding that will be of interest to you - these are a few that we believe will be of interest to Québec birders

We have no responsibility for the information given on these suggested sites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most useful:

Oiseaux du Quebec - for more Quebec birding links than you check out in a week, including links to the 30+ other birding societies around the province

Birding Montreal - general information about birding in the Montréal area with especially extensive and illustrated materail describing local birding sites that you might want to visit.

Les Oiseaux rares du Quebec - the most complete site for listing rare birds (other than our own of course)

Pierre Bannon's site (Le Miroiseur informé) - for background information about the local populations of species, dates of first arrival in the spring etc Pierre Bannon's site is hard to beat.

 

Provincial and territorial birding sites from Canada

Broad-based birding organisations

Some other sites you might enjoy

The Birding in Canada site includes Canadian, provincial and local bird lists, birding events,
books, and more. http://www.web-nat.com/bic/

Visit the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Birds section, on their webpage at: http://birds.fws.gov/

The Migratory Birds Conservation Division of the Wildlife Conservation Branch of Canadian Wildlife Service provides scientific advice on the conservation of Canada's migratory birds to CWS management, to the Government of Canada, to wildlife agencies in Canada and other countries, and to the public. http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/birds/lb_ot_e.cfm

Visit the Canadian Wildlife Service’s Bird and Mammals page.
http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/theme.cfm?lang=e&category=3

Canadian Heritage Information Network's production of Birds: A Virtual Exhibition takes a look at birding information from Canadian museums.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Birds/Birds/index.html

Be sure to visit Bird Watcher's Digest. http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/

Visit the Important Bird Areas of Canada web site at: http://www.ibacanada.com

OPTICS FOR BIRDING

Optics For Birding
A non-commercial site designed to educate those who want to buy optics so that they can make informed buying decisions.

Bird Song

Bird Jam
The essential tool to take into the field with you - easily and rapidly discover the name of the bird you can hear but can't see.

North American Bird Songs
On these pages are the sounds of North American birds; not just bird calls or bird songs, but all the sounds birds make, such as wing sounds and bill rattles. Most files are in Windows WAV format, and all have been edited for file size and clarity. Many have been filtered in ways which do not affect the bird's song, but which may highlight the important parts of the sample.

Bird Song Mnemonics
Here are two lists of mnemonics and other descriptions that can be used as an aid to remembering and identifying birds in the field by their songs and calls. The first list, by Voice, is sorted alphabetically by the sounds birds make. The second, by Bird, is sorted alphabetically by bird name.

MIGRATION INFORMATION

The Migration Research Foundation
This site includes the information for the McGill Bird Observatory and Banding station in Montreal.

U.S. Geological Society – The Migration of Birds

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Division of Migratory Bird Management

Convention on Migratory Species

Canadian Wildlife Service – Migratory Bird Conservation

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Movements of Bird Populations

U.S. Geological Society
The North American Bird Banding Program

Canadian Wildlife Service

OTHERS

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Located along the Appalachian Flyway in southeastern Pennsylvania, scenic Hawk Mountain Sanctuary offers visitors an outstanding experience in nature observation with its mountaintop vistas and thrilling migration of nearly 20,000 hawks, eagles and falcons.

FLAP- Fatal Light Awareness Program
To preserve the life of migratory birds in urban areas.

AVES
A Montreal based organisation doing similar work to FLAP

Environment Canada:
Canadian Shorebird Conservation Plan
The Canadian Shorebird Conservation Plan has five goals designed to fulfill the needs for research, monitoring, and evaluation as well as conservation, communication, and international linkages. This elaborate site offers volumes of information on the project.

The Gull Identification Web Site
These pages are dedicated to those rakish scavengers from the north (okay, some are from the south): gulls! gulls! gulls! Yet, identification remains at a primitive level-- perhaps for no other common species does there exist such a lack of knowledge of basic identification. It is hoped that this website may help us all with gull identification.

Do you know of any sites that ought to be here? Please send us the details and we will post them.