We are very pleased to announce that the Balfour Library has just renewed the subscription to BNA Online for another 3 years, until June 2015.
This has proved to be a very popular resource over the last three years and we are glad to be able to subscribe to it for a further three years.
Published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the American Ornithologists' Union, the resource provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.You can search for species by common or scientific name, and you can browse these. Account contents are frequently updated, with contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. There are image and video galleries showing plumages, behaviors, habitat, nests and eggs, and more. Most accounts now feature recordings of the songs and calls of their species, selected from the extensive collection of Cornell's Macaulay Library http://macaulaylibrary.org/
Access is available throughout the University of Cambridge and off-campus. When on the university network you should be able to go to the BNA Online website at http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/ and access it directly from there. However if you are 'off-campus' you will need to go to the eresources@cambridge website http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/eresources/index.php (click on the Databases tab and search for it there) and you will be prompted for your Raven password.
We hope you continue to enjoy using this resource.
