Ornithological links

My main environmental interest is in ornithology. Birds are good things to study for many reasons; most of them are visible during the day (unlike most cute furry animals), they don't bloom once every decade (unlike Koonamore daisies) and you don't always have to put on a wetsuit to go and look for them (except for in Belgium unfortunately). And there are birds (almost) everywhere, even here in Egham.

Ornithological Organisations

• Bird conservation around the world is co-ordinated by Birdlife International.
• I am an active member of the British Trust for Ornithology and assist in survey work for them.
• The largest ornithological organisation in the U.K. is the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
• I am also a member of Birds Australia.
• It might sound a bit dodgy, but the Oriental Bird Club is the best place to learn about Forktails and things like that.
• See what these lucky people who live in the North-west have been up to at the homepage of the Washington Ornithological Society.
• The North Podlassian Society for Bird Protection is devoted to all things ornithological in the north-east of Poland and is better known as Polnocnopodlaskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Ptakow Bialowieza, or PTOP.

Where to watch birds?

• An excellent general birding portal is Tina Macdonald's Where do you want to go birding today?
• Another favourite portal (for trip reports and more) is the Fat Birder.
• Yet more trip reports from Euro Birding.
• And yet more trip reports from Birdtours.
• Trip reports and a lot more at this site.
• Another portal to birding sites.
• Blake Maybank's comprehensive collection of trip reports from the Americas.
• A wide range of world birding links.
• My father's master work is an excellent guidebook to Birding in Ayrshire.
• A useful site for Birding Southern Africa.
• Jerzy Dyczkowski's excellent site on Birding in Poland.
• Fairly high level images and information about Polish birds.
• A lot of Australian birding locations can be found from the home page of mailing list birding-aus.
• Tonly Palliser's excellent site on Pelagic birding.
• A good collection of trip reports from Susan Myers (who has far too many holidays a year in my opinion!)
• My own unorthodox beginner's bird list for the South Australian Flinders Ranges.

Keith's Trip Reports

• A Grand 72 (and a half) Days Out. This is a bit of a travel saga concerning ten weeks in a small car and a small tent chasing wildlife around Australia in May and June of 1996. The report is not entirely serious and is in a diary format. The trip goes from Adelaide to Darwin to North Queensland and then back down the east coast.
• In Search of the Flying Rhino. The Flying Rhino is a very big bird and well worth searching for. This is a birding trip report of a month on peninsular Malaysia in July of 1996 and includes full descriptions of sites visited and birds seen. An annotated list of birds and mammals seen during the visit is included. The report will of particular interest to first time visitors to Malaysia.
• Ten million sparrows can't be wrong is a report of a short visit to Beijing in November 1997.
• It's a Red-vented Bulbul, Stupid! covers a two week trip to the rather excellent island of Sri Lanka over Easter 1999, with the usual emphasis on things that hop and fly and crawl and bite. There is no such thing as too many curries for breakfast.
• Pura Vida Costa Rica is an illustrated report of two well-spent weeks in Costa Rica in April 2000. There are a ridiculous number of species of birds in Costa Rica and we did our best to see at least a few of them.
• Bonjour Nancy describes a long weekend in the French Lorraine looking for Hoopoes and things like that.
• Some very brief trip reports from Australia.
• Some very brief survey reports from South Australia.

Miscellaneous

• Birds of Britain, a monthly web magazine.
• Find out how the Glossies are doing on Kangaroo Island.
• Check out QuetzalCam!

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