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North America (visit this page on fatfisherman.com)

Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis �Mike Danzenbaker http://www.avesphoto.com/

North America consists of four nations - the United States of America, Mexico, & Canada - Bermuda also lies in this zone both geographically and zoographically. There are also some little-known islands - St Pierre et Miquelon which are geographically North American but remain politically part of France.

The main country pages are supplemented by individual pages for each US state, each Mexican state and each Canadian province. The main country pages are reserved for entries for organisations etc. that are of national significants or, at the very least, cover several states. This page is for links of significance for the whole continent.

The size of the continent means that many species that summer in the North winter in the south. Even within the US alone some birds breed in the north and over winter in the southernmost states, although the majority of summer visitors overwinter in the neo-tropics.

North America probably has more websites than the whole of the rest of the world - it was first into the internet and many clubs etc. at a very local level have had websites for years. Some have the web addresses and formats they started out with, others move and upgrade as technology changes... this makes keeping these pages up to date a nightmare - so please let me know if you come across a dead or changed link.

Bermuda | Canada | Mexico | United States | St Pierre et Miquelon

numbers

Number of bird species: 800
The nearctic has approximately 8% of the world's total.

useful reading

A Birder's Guide to Metropolitan Areas of North America

Edited by Paul E Lehaman American Birding Association 2001
ISBN: 1878788159
Buy this book from NHBS.com

National Audubon Society Birder's Handbook

Stephen W. KressHardcover - 163 pages (1 March, 2000) Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0789451530
Buy this book from NHBS.com

Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Birds

Roger Tory Peterson Hardcover - 384 pages (October 1998) Houghton Mifflin Co
ISBN: 0395911753
Buy this book from NHBS.com

Peterson Field Guides: Western Birds

Roger Tory Peterson Hardcover - 432 pages (December 1998) Houghton Mifflin Co
ISBN: 0395911745
Buy this book from NHBS.com

The Birder?s Guide to Bed & Breakfast

(US & Canada) Peggy Van Hulsteyn JMP (1995)
ISBN: 1562612255
Buy this book from NHBS.com

The North American Bird Guide

David Sibley.Hardcover (21 September, 2000) PICA PRESS; See Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 1873403984
Buy this book from NHBS.com

useful information

ABA Checklist

pdf version available at: http://www.americanbirding.org/checklist/abachecklist.pdf

Backyard Birding

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/
Identify your backyard visitors in a flash! Just answer four simple questions to search our database of 150 backyard birds common to Canada and the U.S...

BirdPlanner.com

http://www.birdplanner.com
BirdPlanner is a free site that enables you to generate bird lists for any place in the western hemisphere�

Proact

Coordinator: Jim Barton - Project manager Proact in the Americas (PINTA)
Members: 90
Reach us at http://www.proact-campaigns.net/team
Contact your coordinator via mailto:info@proact-campaigns.net

clubs

American Bird Conservancy

http://www.abcbirds.org/
American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit dedicated to the conservation of wild birds and their habitats in the Americas. The fundamental role of ABC is to build coalitions of conservation groups, scientists, and members of the public, to tackle key bird priorities using the best resources available. ABC has offices in Washington D.C. and The Plains, Virginia, and staff in Colorado, Montana, and Oregon.

American Birding Association

http://www.americanbirding.org/
North America`s largest membership organisation for active birders - providing leadership to field birders by increasing their knowledge, skills, and enjoyment of birding, and by contributing to bird conservation.

Boreal Songbird Initiative

http://www.borealbirds.org
The Boreal Songbird Initiative (BSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to outreach and education about the importance of the Boreal Forest region to North America's birds. BSI works to mobilize environmental and birding groups and individuals to influence Canadian government and industry policies...

Disabled Birders Association of America

http://www.disabledbirdersassociation.co.uk
The DBA is an organization of disabled and able-bodied birders interested in addressing access and other problems faced by birders trying to get the most out of their birding experiences. US members or those wanting to join should email via the international site...

Neotropical Migrant Birds

http://www.neotropicalbirds.org
Neotropical migrant birds are the songbirds that represent over 50%, more precisely, 340 of the 600 species, of North American birds...

North American Bluebird Society

http://www.nabluebirdsociety.org
The NORTH AMERICAN BLUEBIRD SOCIETY, a non-profit conservation, education and research organization, promotes the recovery of bluebirds and other native cavity-nesting bird species...

Operation Rubythroat - the Hummingbird Project

http://www.rubythroat.org/
Building Environmental Cooperation and Understanding Throughout North and Central America...

Optics for the Tropics

http://www.opticsforthetropics.org/
Optics for the Tropics, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charity organization providing quality optical equipment in the Caribbean and Latin America where resources are very limited. We distribute equipment to ornithologists and educators working to further bird conservation.

reserves

Bird Watching Spots

http://www.thebinocularsite.com/consumer/bird-watching-spots/
...you'll find a listing of popular bird watching spots listed by state and province...

trip reports

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can�t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page� give them a try!

tour operators

Wildside Tourism

http://www.wildsidetoursinc.com
Wildside Birding Tours offers scheduled, guided small group tours to Central & North America (10 people maximum plus two leaders) as well as custom tours, guided or unguided, for any number of people.

places to stay

Ecotourism in America

http://www.ecotourisminamerica.com/
This is a website entirely devoted to nature based travel in the Americas. Here you can find a detailed description of each establishment organized by name, country or activity...

mailing lists

Audubon-Chat

http://www.audubon.org/net/list/audubon-chat/
To subscribe to list:listserv@list.audubon.org
subscribe audubon-chat
Discussion list for National Audubon Society

AudubonPFC

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AudubonPFC
To post to list:AudubonPFC@yahoogroups.com
List contact:AudubonPFC-owner@yahoogroups.com
To subscribe to list:AudubonPFC-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
AudubonPFC is intended to be a forum for discussion and postings concerning birds, their habitat, their conservation, and related issues including sightings and trip lists for southern Idaho. Intended for beginners as well as experienced birders, conservationists as well as listers, it is more like the notes on the refrigerator door of a large family than a peer-reviewed rare bird alert.

Backyard-Birder

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Backyard-Birder
To post to list:Backyard-Birder@yahoogroups.com
List contact:Backyard-Birder-owner@yahoogroups.com
To subscribe to list:Backyard-Birder-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Backyard-Birder is a place for those who love watching birds whether it is at the feeder or in the yard.

BirdChat

http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html
To subscribe to list:listserv@listserv.arizona.edu
BIRDCHAT Your Name
Mailing List � Discussion Group General discussion of North American birds and bird watching.

BirdCntr

mailto:birdcntr-request@listserv.arizona.edu
To subscribe to list:listserv@listserv.arizona.edu
ubscribe BIRDCNTR Your Name
Mailing List � Discussion Group - Transcriptions of rare bird alerts for the central US and Canada

BirdEast

mailto:birdeast-request@listserv.arizona.edu
To subscribe to list:listserv@listserv.arizona.edu
subscribe BIRDEAST Your Name
Mailing List � Discussion Group - Transciptions of rare bird alerts for the eastern US and Canada

BirdWest

mailto:birdwest-request@listserv.arizona.edu
To subscribe to list:listserv@listserv.arizona.edu
subscribe BIRDWEST Your Name
Mailing List � Discussion Group - Transcription of rare bird alerts for the western US and Canada

BIRD_RBA

http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/bird_rba.html
To post to list:bird_rba@listserv.arizona.edu
List contact:bird_rba-request@listserv.arizona.edu
To subscribe to list:listserv@listserv.arizona.edu
subscribe BIRD_RBA Your Name
Rare Birds Alert - (for rarest records in North America) contact web address: NBHC Digest

Birding.com

http://www.birding.com
Birding.com has the answers to your birding questions - Birding around the country and around the world.

Birdingonthe.net

http://www.birdingonthe.net
All sorts of goodies here - including US birding mailing lists, artists, stamps, ornithology and more.

Birds of North America

http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/
The acclaimed standard reference on North American birds. In two centuries of American ornithology, only three comprehensive references have been completed on North American birds. The most recent of these, A.C. Bent`s Life Histories of North American Birds, was begun in 1912, and is now out of date. Now, at long last, a modern reference series is here. The Birds of North America, supported by The American Ornithologists` Union, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, provides a detailed scientific account of each of the more than 700 species nesting in the 50 United States and Canada.

Birds of Prey

http://birdsofprey.ws
I've been interested in raptors and other birds of prey for about eighteen years. I've conducted hawk watches in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas for the Hawk Migration Association of North America (HMANA); was the Western editor of Hawk Migration Studies, HMANA's journal, for ten years; and was on its Board of Directors for a term...

BLOG - Boreal Songbird Initiative

http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/
Dr. Jeff Wells is the Senior Scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative. During his time at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and as the Audubon Society's National Conservation Director, Dr. Wells earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading bird experts and conservation biologists. He is now dedicated to understanding and protecting the land where North America's birds are born and raised, the Boreal Forest of Canada and Alaska. Check back regularly to read Dr. Wells' perspectives on the conservation, migration and interesting habits of Boreal birds.

Cavity Nester

http://www.cavitynester.com
What is a Cavity Nester? A cavity nester is a bird that utilizes nesting holes (cavities) for nesting (laying and incubating eggs, and rearing chicks through fledging). There are roughly 85 species of cavity nesting birds in North America...

CJ Wildlife North America

http://www.cjwildlife.com
CJ Wildlife has 20 years experience offering a wide range of high-quality products to help you attract, feed, identify and care for wild birds and other wildlife in your garden�

eBird

http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
eBird, a project developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, provides a simple way for you to keep track of the birds you see anywhere in North America. You can retrieve information on your bird observations, from your backyard to your neighborhood to your favorite bird-watching locations, at any time for your personal use. You can also access the entire historical database to find out what other eBirders are reporting from across North America. In addition, the cumulative eBird database is used by birdwatchers, scientists, and conservationists who want to know more about the distributions and movement patterns of birds across the continent...

eNature.com

http://www.enature.com
We feature over 700 species of North American birds- each species has detailed descriptive textand colour photographs. We have 893 colour photographs of birds to be exact. We also feature bird calls for 550 different species of birds which can be listened to in real time directly from our site. One of our newest features is the eNature LocalGuide- allowing users toenter their zip code and get a customized guide to their local birds with photos and descriptions. In addition, our users can create and maintain online life lists, join discussions Forums, and receive our weekly newsletters.

Geobirds

http://www.geobirds.com/
See and share bird sightings in your neighbourhood and all over North America. Find and post the best places to find birds. Discover birding groups and stores in your area...

NatureServe

http://www.natureserve.org/
Welcome to NatureServe, a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada. NatureServe provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too. NatureServe is a product of the Association for Biodiversity Information in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network.

Ornithology.com

http://www.ornithology.com/
Ornithology.com is for all ornithologists, bird enthusiasts, and the environmentally-minded. It is the place to begin for information on wild birds. Science, education, and conservation are our goals. It is essentially a North American resource.

Owling.com

http://owling.com/
If you are wondering what owl is hooting out your window, are a student, hobbyist, or just enjoy the owls and nature... you are in the right place. Owling.com is a look at the North American Owls with both biology and multimedia sections to help with the identification, enjoyment, and appreciation of these awesome winged predators.

Seiurus Video

http://www.seiurusvideo.com
We are about birds, photography, and videography of birds. If you plan to photograph birds in Florida, or if you need stock video footage of birds from anywhere in North America, check us out. If you want to learn some basic techniques in making bird and wildlife video, or just want to watch some video of wild birds, you�ve come to the right place...

Sibley Guides Notebook

http://sibleyguides.blogspot.com/
David Sibley - Celebrating the joy of discovery with observations, questions and comments about North America's birds...

The Birds of North America Online

http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA/
Access to the undoubtedly excellent site is, unfortunately, by annual subscription, currently $40 for individuals...

WildBirds

http://www.wildbirds.com/
WildBirds.com can show you how to attract more birds to your yard. We can help you identify birds at your feeders. Explore. Click on any one of the ten sections listed to the left. The first two sections give tips on feeding and attracting wild birds. In the section called Protecting Wild Birds you will discover what to do with baby birds you find. You can also learn why that crazy bird keeps banging against your window each morning! Laugh at the latest bird jokes in Your Favourite Birds section. We also offer our recommendations for the very best birding books, feeders, binoculars and software. Click on the name of the book or product for more information.

artists

Gallery - Monte Taylor - Bird & Wildlife Photography

http://www.tsuru-bird.net
Enjoy the beauty of many North America's birds and mammals! Over 800 species of birds and many large mammals, cetaceans, reptiles, and amphibians, including a number of the rarest North American birds from places like Attu Island Alaska, Texas, SE Arizona, Florida, Nova Scotia, and California, to name just a few! And, two special galleries of the Birds of Japan. I've photographed over 780 species of birds in the US & Canada alone! 

Gallery - North American Bird Photo Gallery

http://www.birdphotography.com/
The number of species illustrated currently stands at 226. Keep checking back because new species and photos are continually being added. The photos displayed here can be licensed for one-time use at reasonable fees, delivered either as digital files or as original 35 mm transparencies.

Photographer - Mike Danzenbaker

http://www.avesphoto.com/website/NA/home.htm
Now over 800 species represented...

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