International Dawn Chorus Day

For the latest information visit the website. International Dawn Chorus Day is on 6 May.
www.idcd.info/

Bioacoustic research

Cornell research on bird communication:
New sound recording and analysis techniques are allowing researchers simultaneously to monitor the singing behaviour and movements of many birds on adjacent territories, providing new insight into the complex communicative interactions among neighbouring territorial birds.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/

Centre for Bioacoustics:

The Centre for Bioacoustics is involved in diverse research projects ranging from investigations of the impact of highway traffic noise on endangered species to studies of the echolocation pulses of Amazon river dolphins. http://bioacoustics.tamucc.edu/

Bird Conservation

Birdlife international
The BirdLife International Partnership strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.
http://www.birdlife.net/

Migrating birds know no boundaries
An educational project following migrating birds by satellite.
http://www.birds.org.il/

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
The RSPB is the largest wildlife conservation charity in Europe and works for a healthy environment rich in birds and wildlife. It has more than a million members and manages over 170 nature reserves across the UK.
http://www.rspb.org.uk

Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT)
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) promotes the conservation of wetlands focusing on rare wetland birds. Founded in 1946 by the artist and naturalist Sir Peter Scott, WWT is the largest international wetland conservation charity in the UK.
http://www.wwt.org.uk/

The Wildlife Trusts
The Wildlife Trusts partnership is the UK's leading conservation charity exclusively dedicated to wildlife.
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/

Bird sounds and songs on the web

Cornell lab bird of the week site
Listen to the call of the 'bird of the week', and look back on some of previous ones, including the common loon and the California wren.
http://birds.cornell.edu/BOW/

Japanese Bird song
Although much of the text may be indecipherable, this site gives you a chance to hear the sounds of some Japanese birds, including the white-eye and the bush warbler.
http://www.blk.mmtr.or.jp/~yuri/birdsongs.html

Sites with sounds
A site that links to bird song sites across the world.
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/links.html

Bird Watching/Identification

British Ornithologists' Union
For over 100 years the British Ornithologists' Union (BOU) has maintained a list of birds that have been recorded in Britain and Ireland. This link takes you to the list itself.
http://www.bou.org.uk/recbrlst.html

Ornithology

BIRDNET
BIRDNET is an online repository of information about the science of ornithology, and about issues of interest to ornithologists. The site is intended to provide information to professional ornithologists, and to members of the general public interested in learning more about both the scientific study of birds and the application of information from that study to conservation and other problems affecting or associated with birds.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/

British Trust for Ornithology
The British Trust for Ornithology has existed since 1933 as an independent, scientific research trust, investigating the populations, movements and ecology of wild birds in the British Isles.
http://www.bto.org/

Online links to Ornithology
A huge global list of links to study papers and scientific projects about birds.
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/bird.html