I recently received the Cornell Lab for Ornithology Annual Report, which can also be downloaded from their website at: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Of particular interest is the section on World-Class Resources for Enjoying Birds, where it mentions some great websites, databases, and other media relating to mainly American birds.
- All About Birds is a 2010 Webby Award Winner for Best Lifestyle website, a guide to birds where you can browse birds by taxonomy, name, or shape. It includes videos and sounds.
- The Birds of North America Online resource including 729 species (the Balfour Library has paid for a subscription to this for the University)
- Birdshare, a Flickr group with 50,937 photos
- Macaulay Library, a scientifically curated collection of >100,000 digitized sounds and >50,000 video clips
- Neotropical birds, an online resource for life histories of Neotropical birds, with 4,100 interactive maps, 1,200 species profiles begun and 127 complete
- YouTube Channel with 51 bird videos
- Facebook has 13 Cornell projects
- Nestcams has 15 nestcams
- Welovebirds.org, new in 2011 with 2,900 members, 382 community blog posts
- Answer to your questions - 80,000 phone and email inquiries are received by Lab staff annually
- Birdseye app, for your iPhone, built for bird watching in North America - the world’s only mobile application that guides you to the birds!
- Clements Checklist, free authoritative list of >9,000 bird species of the world
