• ObservTours
• Borderland Tours
• VENT
• Wings Birding Tours
• Field Guides
• Toucan Tours

• Birdingonthe.Net Mailing List
• MassAudubon Bird Sightings
• Virtual Birder Rare Bird Alert
• Birding in Massachusetts by David Larson
• Massachusetts Hotspots
• South Beach Blair Nikula's excellent link on birding South Beach, off of Chatham, Cape Cod.
• Brookline Bird Club - Est. 1913, over 1300 Members.
• South Shore Bird Club
• Cape Cod Bird Club
• Newburyport Birders

• Neat trip report on Surfbirds from Alan Whitehead
• Neat looking place to stay

• Vermont Nature in General
• Audubon Vermont (IBA Info.)

• Birding New Hampshire
• Pelagic Birding in New Hampshire

• Maine Birding Trail - recent and very nice!
• York to Ogunquit seawatch route - provided by New England Seabirds which also lists other seawatch routes
• Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth
• Mainebirding

• Hawaii - trip report
• VENT - trip itinerary
• Oahu Nature Tours - bird list

• Breeding Bird Atlas- with breeding range maps
  
• Wakodahatchee Wetlands
  
• account of a Birdfinders led trip to Florida, see also their 2004 trip announcement
  
• Vent Florida Trip information
  
• Birding on the net - Florida Birds
  
• i-bird's Florida page
  
• National Forests in Florida
  
• St. Johns County Audubon
  
• Audubon in Florida
  
• Rare Bird Alerts
  
• Florida Birds on the Web
  
• Florida Hotspots (seawatching at apollo beach, birding locations - north east coast, big bend birding guide, st. johns audubon society hot spots)
  
• Birds of Sanibel Island
  
• Sanibel Island Attractions
  
• City of Orlando, FL, Parks Bureau (see Orlando Wetlands Park)
  
• Orlando Welands Park - more info.
  
• Birds of Polk County, Florida, by Charles Geanangel
  
• Lake Wales Ridge Ecosystem Working Group (includes link to Bok Tower Gardens)
  
• Lake Kissimmee State Park
  

• Kerncrest Audubon
• Kern Audubon
• Eastern Sierra Audubon
• Eastern Sierra Birds
• Orange County Birding
• California Hotspots -- great place, many nice links, including Don DesJardins Website.
• Pasadena -- Where to Bird in and around, from Pasadena Audubon Society.
• Bolsa Chica Conservancy
  
• Island Packers -- take a trip out to the Channel Islands for island birds and pelagic birds
• National Audobon Society - California -- (I like to look at the Santa Monica Bay, Los Angeles and Palos Verdes/South Bay Chapters; check the San Bernadino Valley Audobon Rare Bird Alert (909-793-5599) and Birdsearch! at the Palos Verdes South Bay Audobon web site
• Joe Morlan's Carlifornia Birding Pages
  
• SouthWest Birders
  
• Bird Watching at the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge
  

• Central Coast Birding Trail - very useful for Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo counties, the Monterey county link wasn't functioning
• Birding San Diego -- wonderful new site (sept. 2004) from Mary Beth Stowe
• California Mailing List -- from Birdingonthe.Net.
• Birdingonthe.Net -- a few lists here in the Wester US section that pertain to California
• California RBAs from Virtual Birder that pertain to California
• LACoBirds (L.A. County Birds) -- very nice and you may need a Yahoo i.d. and password to get to it (these are free).
• Mitch Heindel's page -- lots of good California birding information.
  
• Sea & Sage Audubon Society, in Orange County
  
• Birds of the Imperial Valley
  
• Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge
  
• Birding California -nice information for Salton Sea, Palm Springs, Bolsa Chica, San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, and more!
  
• Steve Sosensky's page (Cal. birder) -- includes link to Big Morongo Canyon Preserve
• Birding Orange County -nice information for Bolsa Chica, Upper Newport Bay, Huntington Central Park, and more!
  
• L.A. Audubon Birders' Telegraph -- bird alerts!

• Minnesota Birding Network (MnBird)
• Bill Lane, the Owlman
• Carol Schumacher's Minnesota Birding Page
• Big WillowPark
• The Minnesota River Valley Birding Trail
  
• Zumbro Valley Audubon Society (see Bob Ekblad's page)
  
• Park Rapids, MN; see Birding in the Park Rapids Area
  
• Minnesota's Pine To Prairie Birding Trail
  
• The Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU)
  
• Explore Minnesota has interesting information on wildlife in Minnesota, including the Sax Zim Bog
• Minnesota Trip Reports from Birding the Americas, see in particular this one
• Some other Minnesota trip reports I have found interesting can be found here and here.

• Alberta Mailing List -- from Birdingonthe.Net.
• Alberta Hotspots
• birding.com's where to bird - Alberta
• Pinkmoose Birding - includes trip reports, including one to Jasper. including Jasper
• A trip to Canada, including Jasper
• Alberta Trip Reports from Birding the Americas, see in particular the June 2000 reports
• information about a trip to Churchill and Southern Manitoba
• Edmonton Bird Club
• Edmonton's River Valley
• About.com's birding in Alberta pages
• Birdwatching in Ontario Provincial Parks
• Websites-Naturally - see the personal pages.
• The Wildbird General Store

• birding.com - where to bird - North Dakoa (checklists, links, etc.)
  
• Theodore Roosevelt National Park Bird List
  
• Peterson Online USA Birding Links (try ND, then Audubon, then Fargo Moorhead, then look at their links)
  
• North Dakota Hotspots
  
• Birding on the Net Mail List for North Dakota
  
• Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota - write up by Birder's World Online
  

• Birds of Nebraska
  

• New Mexico Chapter of Nature Conservancy (see Places We Protect)
  
• Thumbnail Guide to Bosque Del Apache NWR
  
• New Mexico Hot Spots
  
• Friends of the Bosque del Apache
  
• New Mexico Checklists
  
• Rio Grande Nature Center
  
• New Mexico Trip Reports -- from repository site assembled by Blake Maybank
  

• Tennessee Valley Audubon Society see the birding map in resources
  

• Brazil page of Guided Birdwatching.com Richard Raby has some nice information
  
• WIKI Aves which is dedicated to birds of Brazil
  
• Trip Report which was listed on Guapi Assu's list of reports
  
• Trip Reports at Birdtours.co.uk - the ones by Jan Hein van Steenis and Marlene and Gary Babic are excellent
  
• A Birdwatching Guide to South-East Brazil book
  While I've found the above book to be a great source of information, it sometimes leaves one wondering where they will stay at. At the birdtours.co.uk page for Brazil trip reports I found a couple of nice looking lodges. The
• Serra dos Tucanos appears to be a nice lodge 1 1/2 hours from Rio
• Vale das Taquaras Lodge looks interesting and one of their links is to the
• Guapi Assu Bird Lodge which also looks very interesting.
• Birding Brazil: A Check-list and Site Guide
  
• Rick Simpson does guiding and has a nice page (he used to have a 'nicer' page, but it seems to be gone)
  
• Ubatuba Birds for birds of Ubatuba
  
• John van der Woude has a nice Brazil report
  
• Brazil Travel Blog of Tony Galvez has a lot of useful information, start by looking under 'destinations'
  
• BirdingRio is a site associated with Ricardo Parrini about whom some good things have been said
  
• Naturally, VENT has some fantastic trips
  

• Info
• Here is some useful info about Alajuela Province.

• Tour Companies
• Birding Costa Rica with Tropical Feathers - have a lot of neat info, including extensive bird photos
• Borderland Tours does a Costa Rica trip.
• Birdseen has a nice trip report.
• Ocoee Adventure Travel has a great trip and their page has links to all the places they stay.
• VENT does a trip.
• Costa Rica Gateway does tours.
• Cotinga Tours does tours.

• Photos
• Richard Garrigues, coauthor of The Birds of Costa Rica, has some great photos!

• Places to Bird
• Carara National Park info here, and here.

• Trip Reports
• John Keep has a nice account.
• Lynn Jackson has a nice account, as well as ones on Oaxaca and the UK.

• Trip Report Sites
• Surfbirds always has great reports including this one.
• Birding the America Costa Rica trip report page.

• Lodging
• North of San Jose
• Hotel Villa Lapas, between Jaco and Tarcoles
• Selva Verde Lodge, two hours north of San Jose, near Puerto Viejo
• La Selva OTS Biological Research Station, near Puerto Viejo
• La Paz Waterfall Gardens, just north of San Jose
• Arenal Hanging Bridges, in front of the Arenal Volcano, 4 Kms east of Tabacon
• Arenal Observatory Lodge
• Savegre Mountain Lodge, 7200 ft high, less than 2 hours south of San Jose: see also here

• South
• Esquinas Rainforest Lodge, 7 hours south of San Jose near Parque Nacional Piedras Blancas
• Paraiso del Quetzal, Km 70 of PanAm highway south of San Jose

• Some links in preparation for a trip to the valley of Oaxaca City in the winter of 2012-2013
  • Mary has a couple accounts of birding in Oaxaca in May of 2011

• Hotel El Rey del Caribe (downtown Cancun)
• Club Med Villas Arqueologicas Cobas, Coba
• Hotel Esquivel, Felipe Carrillo
• Hacienda Chichen Resort, Chichen Itza
• Hotel Punta Ponto, Rio Lagartos
• Coral Princess Hotel and Resort, Cozumel
• Westin Resort & Spa, Cancun

• Guides for Rio Lagartos area
• Supposedly yucatan guides but didn't work last time I tried
• This page and this page offer information on Hotel San Felipe de Jesus in San Felipe
• El Faisan y El Venado - info. from Fodor's on this hotel in Felipe Carrilo Puerto
• Ek Balam ruins that we may visit
• Chiich Bird Club
• Eagle-Eye Tours
• Birdseen , with a nice trip report to Yucatan

• List of Mexican Birding Guides
• Mexico Birding mailing list
• Beautiful photos of birds in Mexico from Manuel Grosselet
• Mexican Hotspots
• The journal Huitzil from which you can print excellent articles on the birds of Mexico!
• A suggested reading list from Solipaso.
• Tour by Mexico
• Mexican Bird Photos - see the Royal Flycatcher!
• Haven't found much use for it yet, but Mexsearch is the "Yellow Pages".

• San Blas, Nayarit:
  • Hotel Garza Canela

• Colima, Colima:
  • Hotel Los Candiles
  • Hotel Costeno

• Sinaloa, Mazatlan and up Durango Highway:
  • The Tufted Jay Preserve has accomodations on the Durango Highway.

• Birdfinders (UK) has an interesting Nayarit/Sinaloa trip
• Noah Strycker has a San Blas birding page and a trip report

• Oaxaca City: Calesa Real is nice, but I like La Casona Del Llano better. La Noria is also very nice and both Posada Catarina and Hostal CasAntica are nice.
• Puerto Escondido: Hotel Santa Fe is nice.
• Tehuantepec: consider staying at Guiexhoba Hotel.
• Tuxtepec: Hotel Hacienda is nice.
• Huatulco: Monte Carlo is a wonderful shade grown coffee plantation with great birding in the pacific coast hills above Huatulco.

• Laguna Manialtepec, Oaxaca (by clicking on Puerto Escondido, there is a lot of information about this city to be found)
• Mexico Connect's Hotel page for Oaxaca (including the Hacienda in Tuxtepec)
• Tuxtepec Web Page
• Here is a Interactive City Map of Oaxaca.
• Oaxaca's Tourist Guide - (including info. on natural attractions, distances between locations, weather, etc.)
• El Mercado de Oaxaca - information on Oaxaca
• We've rented from Alamo in Oaxaca. Here is Budget and Hertz (Budget seems quite a bit cheaper, National and Enterprise are not in Oaxaca City, Avis doesn't seem to be in Oaxaca; Dollar is in Huatulco)
• Borderland Tours - have a great Oaxaca trip
• VENT - has a great Oaxaca trip
• Wings Birding Tours - has a great Oaxaca trip
• Field Guides - has great Oaxaca trips
• Toucan Tours also has Oaxaca trips
• Trip Report from Terrie Murray
• Oaxaca Trip Report from Birding the Americas Trip Report Repository
• Oaxaca, Puerto Arist, Mexico City Area report from Gruff Dodd.
• High Lonesome Ecotours do trips in Mexico, including Oaxaca.
• Pelee Wing Nature Store - in Ontario, Canada, runs trips in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. See their page.

• Aves Ecuador - discovered this after our trip.
• Mindo Cloudforest Foundation - under 'Home' you can see very useful Milpe and Rio Salinche Info.
• Angel Paz Antpitta Reserve - a few photos
• Cabanas San Isidro
• Reserva Las Gralarias
• Tandayapa Bird Lodge
• Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve
• Hacienda La Cienega
• Mary Sue has some great Ecuador photos you can get to here
• The Best of Ecuador.com Birdwatching Page
• Detailed trip report with useful reference material from 2009.
• Detailed trip report with useful reference material from 2001.
• Nice trip report.
• Nice trip report.
• Nice trip report.
• Nice trip report.
• Exotic Birding has some great trips and information.

• 2016 Trip Prep:
• Birdingonthe.Net Peru Birding List
• AndeanBirding - Peru tours in Feb. and April
• Peru Master - The Check-List from Birding-Peru
• Birding-Peru.com
• Bird Linke to the World - Peru - BirdLife International
• Where to Watch Birds in Peru book by T. Valqui
• Nice trip report from Simon Allen on WorldTwitch
• Birding Peru, Bolivia and Chile
• Toucan Tours - Peru tours Sept and Oct
• Tanager Tours (see trip reports) - Peru tours at least from July to October
• Kolibri expeditions - Peru tours from at least July to December
• Kolibri expeditions
• Mark Smith Nature Tours
• Tropical Birding - see their trip reports, do an August Peru tour
• Birds of Wasai Lodge
• Transport out of Lima
• Nice trip reports here, here and here
• Peru Guide travel aide
• Peru Birdwatching Tours
• 2018 Trip Prep:
• PeruBirds' wonderful resource
• BirdingNorthPeru's wonderful resource
• Birding Site Guide - Peru
• Exotic Birding's great info about Birding in Peru
• Birder's Rest: see their North Peru section

• Old Trip Announcement from Baltimore Bird Club

• Birding Columbia - Birdwatching Tours
• Aves Venezuela
• Birdwatching - Guyana Tourism Authority
• Birding in Suriname
• Amazone Nature Lodge - French Guiana

• Birding Panama - Custom Designed Tours has a lot of interesting info

• Nature World Wide - you get the impression they have a lot of information, but when I looked in April of 2003, they really didn't.
  

• thaibirding.com, by Nick Upton, has some great material. In particular, under Locations go to Central and then Laem Pak Bia - Pak Thale.

• Some detailed trip reports, particularly nice ones about Spain.
  
• World Wide Bird Sites - nice info on places and birds of Europe
  
• Eurobirding
  

• Farm Lator in the north-east of Hungary looks like a great place to stay - under Wildlife Holidays are some nice Trip Reports
• Real Birder has a couple of nice trip reports
• Hungarian Bird Tours has a lot of good information
• SAKERTOUR is a good source of information
• CANBIRD world bird tours has some information on birding in hungary

• Creag-Na-Mara B and B, Northern Scotland

• Discovering Donana, a great page with neat photos and they lead trips.
  
• Andalucia trip announcement from Mass. Audubon for fall of 2006.
  
• A nice web page from Ignacio Yufera about birding in Madrdi, Spain, etc.
  
• SEO/BirdLife
• A nice trip report from Surfbirds
  
• Donana Bird Tours which includes trip reports
  
• Nice Extremadura and Coto Donana report from May 2006
• Another nice report from Extremadura in May 2002
• Map of Huelva Province Zones
• Information on hotel accomodations in Spain from Surfbirds.
• Information on Carvajal Hotel , just outside Monfrague, in Torrejon el Rubio.
• Information on Hotel Rural Vina Las Torres , just outside Trujillo, and another link where where they are mentioned.
• Information on El Rocio , including a link to hotel El Cortijo de Los Mimbrales.
• Information on Finca Santa Marta , in Trujillo.
• fat birder's Spain page
• Sociedad Espanola de Ornitologia

• Birdnet.de
  
• Bavarian Ornithological Society
  

• Bertiny Lazne Spa in Trebon see also Bertiny Lazne Spa in Trebon
• Arnika Hotel in Kubova Hut, Vimperk

• Atypus Natural Tours Czech Birds Tour
  
• Summit International Travel, Inc.
  
• Atypus Natural Tours Czech Birds Tour
  
• Itinerary for Czech Birding Tour
  
• Birdwatching in the Czech Republic
  
• Birds of Trebonsko Page
  
• Czech Ornithological Society
  
• a page to three sites
  
• Probirder Czech Republic Page
  
• Traveler's Roost Birding Czech Republic Page
  
• Czech Republic Hotspots

• Birding the Roman Coastal State Nature Reserve! - see the map, in particular The Park of Castel Fusano, Pond's Canal, The River Tiber, The Coccia di Morto Estate, The Maccarese Ponds, The Mouth of the Arrone,
  
• Italian Hotspots
  
• Where to watch birds in Rome
  
• Top 10 sites for birdwatching in Italy
  
• Picchio Verde (includes photos of italian birds)
  
• Italian Gulls
  
• Fat Brider's birding ... Italy
  
• CISO - Centro Italiano Studi Ornitologici
  

• Birders World
  
• Buteo Books
  
• Bird Watcher's Digest
  

• Shorebirdworld.org - out of Manomet, MA
• Driftwood Wildlife Association -their Chimney Swift project (with web cam) is interesting.
• USGS - Linking Migratory Shorebird Habitats: The Power of Stable Isotopes

• WildImaging
• Xeno-Canto - the place for tropical bird songs to download
• Macaulay Library - from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• European bird songs - many songs, from Italian Ornithological Web Site.

• Larry Neily's page - A birder from Ottawa with a rich set of information and links.
• West Nile Virus Info.
• BirdGuides
• BirdPerch.com - pictures and a state by state listing of sites
• American Birding Association.
• Birdfinders - Holidays for Birdwatchers - trip summaries for many locations throughout the world.
• Flying Emu Birding Pages - including seasonal checklists to areas throughout the world
• BBC - Nature - Birds
• Creagrus
• Siler's page
• Birding the Americas -- excellent trip report and planning repository site assembled by Blake Maybank
• Birdingonthe.Net -- mailing lists, galleries, species lists, links, etc.
• The North American Bird Page -- (their Photography Page is interesting)
• Bat Conservation International
  
• Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter -USGS
  
• Virtual Birder (great, play birding game on the web; boston, florida and penn.)
• Virtual Bird Eggs Exhibit, Provincial Museum of Alberta
  
• Greg Kunkel's Bird Songs
  
• Bird Checklists of the United States
  
• BirdSource
  
• Laura Erickson is For the Birds
  
• Wild Birds Unlimited - nice Bird Feeder Cam
  

• Great Photos from E. J. Peiker
  
• Greag Lavaty's - wonderful photos
• Jeff Nadler - specializes in Northern Forest Nature
• Arthur Grosset's Birds
• ERWIN has some super photos
  
• softbill.com photos (see the paradise, grass-green, and blue-winged tanagers)
  
• Tsuru Home Page photos
  
• Theme Birds on Stamps
  
• nice photos (careful of pop-up windows)
  
• Dana Gardner's Page
  
• Nature Photographers Online Magazine
• James Ownby's Page
  
• Artwork or Julie Zickefoose
  
• Laurence's Digital Birds
  
• Peter Jones Wildlife Photography (check out the Buff-Breasted Sandpiper photos)
  
• Owls and Raptors (check out the Griffon Vulture photos)
  
• Photobirder, an excellent site produced by Marcus Martin
  
• Birds as Art - Arthur Morris
  

Information:

• Better View Desired
  
• Living Bird's Guide to Spotting Scopes (see the Winter 98 issue)
  
• Optics for Birding
• A Gentle Introduction to Optical Design
  

Optics Shops:

• Eagle Optics
  

• Dyke Marsh
  
• Where to Bird in D.C. by birding.com
  
• A Capital Experience ... Birding in D.C.
  
• Aububon Society of the District of Columbia (see Birding around D.C.)
  
• Maryland Ornithological Society - Montgomery County Chapter (see newsletters)
  

• Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
  
• Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area
  
• Des Plaines Fish and Wildlife Area
  
• Chicago Wilderness