LOTS of LINKS and IDEAS for BIRDERS

More Info for Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest

Birding the Americas: Focus on Migration (Bird Fest link)

Checklist of Birds for the Wenatchee River Watershed (PDF)

Birding Map of the Wenatchee River Watershed (PDF)

ABA Birding Ethics (PDF) Please note paragraph 1.b about using sound devices to attract birds.

Ethical Birding Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest agrees with these ethics regarding calling birds from cover. Thanks to Teri Pieper for design work.

Links to Other Pacific Northwest Bird Festivals

Upper Skagit Bald Eagle Festival (January) Rockport, WA

Port Susan Snow Goose Festival (February) Stanwood, WA

Grand Coulee Dam Balde Eagle Festival (February) Grand Coulee Dam, WA

Winter Wings Festival (February) Klamath Falls, OR

Othello Sandhill Crane Festival (March) Othello, WA

John Scharff Migratory Bird Festival (April) Burns, OR

Wings Over Water (April) Blaine, WA

Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival (April) Hoquiam, WA

Olympic Peninsula BirdFest (April) Sequim, WA

Spring Wings (May) Fallon, NV

Tukwila Backyard Wildlife Festival (May)

Wings Over the Rockies, BC (May)

Puget Sound Bird Festival (September)

Chelan Ridge Hawk Migration Festival (September, Pateros WA) Displays, learning opportunities, shuttle from Pateros to Chelan Ridge for hawk watching during the height of the fall migration.

More Bird-Related Links

	May 12, 2012, is International Migratory Bird Day. Established in 1992, IMBD celebrates the incredible journeys of migratory birds between their wintering grounds in Mexico, Central, and South America and their breeding grounds in North America. It is celebrated in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Central America. The IMBD theme for 2012 is Connecting People to Bird Conservation.

All About Birds: Top 10 "Birding for Science" projects recommended by Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

BirdNote: Learn a bit more about the amazing world of birds every morning.

Collisions: Information on ways to help birds avoid flying into windows on buildings.

An idea shared (with permission) by another birder:

While visiting at an Audubon center we found a really good way to avoid window strikes.  Quite involved and a bit expensive, but it "really, really works"  We installed this over our banks of windows and have not had a strike since.  It involves suspending/stretching bird netting over the windows, some distance from the glass.  Ours are stretched from nylon cords held about 8" from the glass by long eye bolts.  I used electrical zip ties to secure the netting which ends up being a kind of trampoline that the birds fly into instead of the glass.  At the center I mentioned, their netting is stretched about two feet from the glass. That allows them to get behind the netting to clean the windows without removing the whole system.
Like I said, involved, but really works well.  Has to be stretched so the bird does not still hit the glass.  The netting is almost unnoticeable and effects photography minimally.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

eBird: Data entry for birders.

NatureSound: 2010 Keynote Martyn Stewart's very interesting home page

North Central WA Audubon

Project FeederWatch: Citizen Science in which all birders can participate.

United States Nightjar Survey Network: More Citizen Science in which birders can participate.

	Drinking shade-grown coffee saves important winter habitat for our Neotropical migratory birds. One of the most important factors in decline of some species of birds (and other wildlife) is destruction of habitat needed for survival. Learn more by clicking the Western Tanager at left.

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