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All around the world (but especially in the US) there are cameras pointing at nests or feeders or other strategic locations designed to capture live images of birds. Some are part of on-going studies, many more just for fun, education or viewing pleasure. They range from very poor to excellent visual quality and from the super professional to the rank amateur. Small dedicated video cameras are coming down in price and this is an increasingly popular use for them.

Of the sites listed below many will only operate during nesting season… but, as the whole world is covered one should be able to find some live footage somewhere. In most cases images are taken every few minutes and the latest displayed. There is usually a facility to see the last few tens of pictures and many sites also archive their best shots. If you can`t get out in the field… try these sites for virtual birding!

Bear in mind that many of these webcams are seasonal and, as some are actual nests, they may only be occupied for one year. Let us know if you find that the site has gone away or if you find others. Fatbirder

Some webcam websites will also be found on geographical pages or the forthcoming bird families pages.

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Web Broadcasting Corporation

http://www.thewebbroadcastingcorporation.com/
The Web Broadcasting Corporation offers a variety of Live Web Camera feeds in conjunction with other organisations including the BBC, The British Broadcasting Corporation Webcams, BBC Somerset Webcam, BBC Spring Watch, BBC Spring Watch, Denbury Farm, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, The Wildlife Park At Cricket St Thomas, The Butterfly Farm, The Butterfly Farm At Stratford-Upon-Avon, WWT, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge and offer other webcam viewing at The Perry Institute For Marine Science. Denbury farm Webcams focus Badgers webcams, Bird Table webcams, Nest box webcams, Fox webcams, Otter webcams, Deer webcams, Horse webcams, Farm webcams, Owl webcam and Wildlife webcams. Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Webcams focus on Sea Bird webcams, Bitten webcams, Black Headed Gull, Tern and other Sea Gull webcams, The Wildlife Park At Cricket St Thomsas Webcams focus on Zoo webcams including, Lion webcams, Tiger webcams, Cheetah webcams, Elephant webcams, Monkey webcams, Gorilla webcams, Meer Kat webcams, and Panda webcams, Butterfly Farm webcams focus on Butterfly webcams, Spider webcams, Leaf Cutting Ants webcams and Creepy Crawley webcams. WWT Webcams, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Webcams, Slimbridge Webcams focus on Wild Fowl webcams, Swan webcams, Duck webcams, Geese webcams, Flamingo webcams, Supergoose and Kingfisher webcams. The Perry Institute For Marine Science Webcams focus on Sea webcams, Underwater webcams, Marine Life Webcams, Shark webcams, Whale webcams, Dolphin webcams, Coral Reef webcams and Fish webcams. The Web Broadcasting Corporation Webcams also have Astronomy Webcams that focus on the Moon webcam, Sun webcam, Astro webcam, Star webcams and Father Christmas webcams, Environmental webcams and Science webcams...

  trip reports

 

Travelling Birder
http://www.travellingbirder.com
The Travellingbirder.com birding trip report search engine guides you to 7,000+ birding trip reports on the Internet. You can search for trip reports from a specific country and time of year. Not all these reports are in English. So, if you can’t find the trip report you want on this Fatbirder page… give them a try!

  other links

 

Albufera - Valencia, Spain

http://www.terra.es/personal7/jidies/webcamSpring.htm
In June 2002, a couple of webcam were installed in l`Albufera de Valencia by the Conselleria de Medi Ambient. The images obtained by the webcams are those that can be observed at the Visitors Centre of the Racó de l`Olla reserve.

American Kestrel - Arizona, USA

http://www.mhsw.com/kbox/webcam.htm
Images from The Kestrel Box...

Avocet - Sweden

http://www.getteron.com/indexeng.htm
Getteröns Nature Reserve...

Badgers Bank

http://www.badgers36.plus.com/index.html
Nest box cam over several seasons...

Bald Eagle - EagleCam - Washington USA

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildwatch/eaglecam/index.html
Two web-enabled video cameras show a Kent-area bald eagle nest with live video. The Kent EagleCam features two different views of the nest. The far view - EagleCam - Kent1 or the close view - EagleCam - Kent2.

Bald Eagle - Maine, USA

http://www.nwf.org:80/eaglecam/meetoureagles.cfm
This bald eagle pair has successfully raised chicks in this nest for ten years, where they have raised 16-17 chicks...

Bald Eagle - Massachusetts, USA

http://www.firstlightpower.com/eagles/default.asp
...another successful year for the bald eagles nesting under the watchful eye of Eagle Cam. The eagles, nesting on Northeast Utilities-owned Barton Island in the Connecticut River, hatched and raised two chicks which have now begun life on their own...

Bald Eagle - Wisconsin, USA

http://www.fws.gov/northeast/iroquois/BaldEagles.html
Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge...

Barn Owl - Germany

http://www.ekenis.de/home/webcam/
Nach erfolgreicher Aufzucht sind in diesem Jahr 3 Jungvögel groß geworden und bereits ausgeflogen. Zur Zeit halten sich keine Schleiereulen im Nistkasten auf. Auf unserer Seite Best of 2002 können Sie die besten Bilder der Saison 2002 nocheinmal anschauen.

Barn Owl - Luxembourg

http://webplaza.pt.lu/gklares/Eilen/Eilen_main.html
Die Schleiereule - Tyto Alba

Barn Owl - USA

http://www.theowlcam.com/
The Owl Cam - The Nestbox is located in Benicia, California, in The Historic Arsenal District. The nestbox has been in use by Barn Owls for over a decade. Between mating cycles, the Owls use the box for a roost. (A place to sleep during the day.) 2004 was the year we began observing the activity inside the box...

Bird Cinema

http://birdcinema.com
Video sharing website for bird enthusiasts…

Bird Nest Building Pictures Webcam - Guildford UK

http://www.eryptick.net/bird/
Archived pictures over several seasons...

Birdcam - London

http://www.super-reload.com/super-cam/
Some nice shots of London's feeder using birds...

Birdfeedercam - Wild Birds Unlimited

http://www.wbu.com/feedercam_home.htm
This wild bird food company (Wild Birds Unlimited) has no less than 36 cameras in action at feeders where you can access the images of the birds that come in almost real time.

Birdhouse Network

http://birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse/nestboxcam/
The Nest Box Cams use real-time Internet technology to observe and interpret the nesting behaviors of cavity-nesting birds and promote understanding of their breeding biology... a number of different sites.

Black Stork - Czech Republic

http://kristyna.rozhlas.cz/en/index.html
Videosession from the Black Stork nest - There are a short videorecordings of the live session from the Kristyna nest during summer in two parts...

Blackbird - Stoke-onTrent, UK

http://ukmjk.ww.com/
Martin Kessel's webcam at a Blackbird's nest 2007...

Blackbird Nest - London, UK

http://www.mpservices.demon.co.uk/blackbird.htm
Regularly updated pictures from the nest...

Blackbird Nest - UK

http://www.dedf.co.uk/birdcam/
Day by day photos from a UK blackbird`s nest...

Blue Tit

http://www.rte.ie/radio/mooneygoeswild/features/mooneycam/
Irish webcam

Blue Tit - Germany

http://www.birdcam.de/webcam.htm
We are feeding birds in our garden. During the summer we watch brooding birds there.

Blue Tit - Lancashire, UK

http://www.beautifulbritain.co.uk/webcam.html
Last year both our home made bird boxes were occupied by blue tits. Click here for construction details, plans and general advice. The nests were removed and the boxes cleaned in November, resulting in pictures 1 and 2 below. In picture 2, note that the nest has been built as far back as possible, away from potential predators...

Blue Tit - Nesting Bluetits of Surrey - UK

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/D.Jefferies/bird/birdsite.html
Our resident bird (see last year`s narrative page ) has got over the commotion on New Year`s Eve, and has been roosting regularly. The temperature outside this evening is -2C. We had a short circuit problem in the power supply to the nest box camera, which is now fixed. Sunset is now shortly after 4pm and the bird comes in to roost within 15 minutes of sunset. On the bird feeders, activity is brisk; two nuthatches have been seen at once, and a rather feeble-looking small sparrow has been eating up the leavings...

Blue Tit - Springwatch UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/03/09/springwatch_birdbox_camera_2007.shtml
Watch live video of the blue tits everyday from 11am. Thanks to the early spring one blue tit has already started setting up home! Follow the scenes as our camera beams back live pictures from inside the birdbox everyday of the week (11am-7pm). Please be patient as the bird is not always home! During the early stages the blue tit will come and go collecting items for the nest...

Blue Tit - UK

http://www.biggonline.co.uk/
Again, in 2003 we will be monitoring nesting progress in both our boxes. Both pairs of birds have successfully reared chicks in the years we have been watching them. Follow this diary to see if we are as lucky this year. Details can be seen in the 2003 Diary alongside. Hopefully, we will be following them until early June when the chicks leave their nests.

Blue Tit - UK - Hampshire

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~rod99/

Blue Tit - Wales, UK

http://www.daviv.com/diary_2002_3.htm
A fairly uneventful day, today. I have been keeping the feeders replenished every few hours and I can see the chicks are settled down without Mum. One or two have their heads under their wings but most are head-down and asleep. This is the first time that Mum has not been with them overnight. I suppose they wriggle too much!

Bluetit Watch - Wiltshire, UK

http://bluetitwatch.co.uk/default.aspx
…We live just outside Swindon on the Wiltshire/Oxfordshire border in the south of England. The site is updating daily, so if you want the latest info in TitLand come back soon!

Canada Goose - Pennsylvania, USA

http://www.feith.com/goosecam/
Runs from Mid-March each year...

Cardinal Cam - Palm Bay Florida USA

http://cardinalcam.freeservers.com/
We have 7 or more feeders and two birdbaths. You may see a number of species; Two Cardinal families and a red-headed Woodpecker and baby are also regular visitors, especially to the suet. We also have doves who usually ground feed, as well as a bunny family who does the same. A great crested flycatcher has been about but not recently. Also there is a Jay who likes to stir things up.

Carolina Chickadee - South Carolina, USA

http://birds.cornell.edu/birdhouse/nestboxcam/SC2002archive1.html
Carolina Chickadee eggs are smooth and non-glossy. The eggs are white with reddish brown spots concentrated at the larger end, and are indistinguishable from Black-capped Chickadee eggs...

Chimney Swift - Texas, USA

http://www.chimneyswifts.org
Our Chimney Swift Web Cam is a unique opportunity to observe Chimney Swifts during the nesting season (May 1 through September 1)...

Clive & Sheila's Garden Bird Webcam

http://www.mygardenbirds.co.uk/
Welcome to mygardenbirds.co.uk; a webcam and general information site based in a typical urban garden on the western edge of the Black Country in central England...

Eastern Bluebird - Maine, USA

http://www.nysbs.org
We decided to operate a NestCam so our web site visitors can enjoy the sites of the bluebirds as they are raised by their parents. I expect to have the camera operating from about 7am to dusk, 7 days-a-week, my ISP & modem permitting. If the camera is offline, you will get a error message to the effect that you could not connect to WebCam32, or there will just be a grey box. Since weather may affect the amount of light available to the camera, I have included the weather info for Maine, NY.

Eastern Screech Owl - Texas, USA

http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/owl/
The 2002 eastern screech owl (Otus asio hasbroucki) nesting season is now complete in this urban Austin, Texas, nest box. Four eggs were laid, three hatched, and three owlets left the box three and half weeks later. One owlet is missing and presumed dead, and two are in the care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator who is treating them for the wide assortment of parasites they acquired from food provided to them by their unwitting parents. The condition of the owlets is improving, and a full recovery is anticipated. Once recovered they will be trained to hunt, and released at the nest box site.

Elkstreet - Colorado USA

http://www.elkstreet.com/
Image updated every 30 minutes, weather every hour throughout the day (except during technical glitches and other events beyond the control of the webmaster!). Feeders in Colorado.

Great Blue Heron - Washington USA

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildwatch/heroncam/index.html
Enjoy exploring the world of the great gray bird that the Nisqually Indians referred to as grandfather...

Great Tit - Bird Box Camera - UK

http://www.gardenwildlife.co.uk/gw_box1.htm
Hello, I am Jeremy Pidgeon. Welcome to my web site about bird nesting boxes. I hope you will find it interesting and enjoy your visit. In my garden in the South West of England, I have fitted my first bird-nesting box with a small video camera. During this year I have captured several snapshots from the video pictures so you could follow the progress of the birds. Next year I hope to be putting one more camera up in my loft were a pair of starlings have nested regularly each year. If you have followed the events as they happened then thank you and I hope you enjoyed it.

Great Tit [or Blue Tit] - Helsinki, Finland

http://www.ponttokamera.net/index_e.htm
A great tit has bin roosting here every night since November 7th. It comes in the after noon between 3 and 4 a clock and leaves in the morning between 8 and 9...

James Reserve Wildlife Observatory

http://www.jamesreserve.edu/webcams.lasso
We are exploring a variety of technologies for delivering video directly from robotically controlled video cameras situated at the James Reserve...

Kestrel - Devon, UK

http://www.wildlink.org/kestrel.htm
Kestrel`s Nest - The four kestrel chicks successfully flew the nest during the week beginning 15th July. Here are some of the highlights since they hatched on June 11th..

Kestrel Nest Cam

http://www.lbv-Kempten-Oberallgaeu.de/

Little Blue Penguin - New Zealand

http://www.penguins.co.nz/?cam
This four year old pair of penguins have been together for two seasons. This is their second breeding attempt this year, their first clutch of eggs failed to hatch...

Louisville Feeder cam - Louisville, Kentucky USA

http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moore/feeder/feeder.html
Our Window on the Feeder... at Moore [astronomical] Observatory.

Mike`s Backyard Birdcam - Michigan USA

http://www.birdvista.com/indxbrdcm.html
The BirdCam is now on daily from midmorning until late evening (EDT). During this time, you can observe live images of my backyard bird feeders. Both a Non-Java (default) and a Java image feed are available. (Note, the after dark infrared illuminated images appear in Black & White.)

Nature Watch - Essex, UK

http://www.nature-watch.co.uk/
We have cameras set up in 4 nest boxes, a bird bath, mealworm feeder and seed feeder, recording all of the action from a regular household garden in Essex. You can now watch some of these cameras online through our Live Streaming system! There are also diaries of events, news pages and the Get Involved section has information for you to get out with nature in your own garden. To find out what has been happening in the garden, check out the News page for all the up to date info!

New York Wild - USA

http://newyorkwild.org/webcams/webcams.htm
This webcam image alternates on a 3 minute rotation between views of the Osprey Nest and a small bay of the North Spring Pool of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge...

Ornithos - Espaço Birdwatching

http://www.ornithos.com.br
Live webcam in South Brazil…

Osprey - Blackwater Refuge - Cambridge, Maryland, USA

http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/camhtm.html
The ospreys have migrated south for the season. We are currently working on an arrangement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that will allow us to continue our Osprey Cam, and hopefully an Eagle Cam, next year. We thank you for your patience and support during the successful rearing of Orion, the osprey chick. See you next year!

Osprey - North Carolina, USA

http://home.ec.rr.com/ospreynest/

Osprey - RSPB - Loch Garten Scotland UK

http://www.rspb.org.uk/webcams/birdsofprey/lochgartenvideo.asp
In the 1999 breeding season, we ran three webcams in nesting birds. By early August, only the Loch Garten ospreys remained - and even they were only occasional visitors to their nest. By the end of August, all the birds had left. The images all came from the closed circuit video cameras in our visitor centres for the three nature reserves...

Osprey - Rutland Water - UK

http://www.ospreys.org.uk/Webcamimages.htm
The ongoing re-introduction scheme caught on camera...

Outersight

http://www.outersight.co.uk/
Outersight specialises in designing and installing remote video observation systems for the heritage and wildlife tourism sector...

OwlCam - Massachusetts USA

http://www.owlcam.com
You are cordially invited to share in the adventures of a pair of Northern Barred Owls (Strix varia varia) as they raise their family in a nest box in Eastern Massachusetts. Rest assured that all of the pictures and sounds that you will experience are being obtained through owl friendly methods. The color photos are being taken with a supertelephoto lens at a range of 110 feet, while the black and white shots are products of a miniature low-light video camera. This video camera -OwlCam - is hidden behind a false ceiling inside the owl`s nest box.

Oystercatcher Cam

http://cyberbirding.uib.no/nof/nyheter/webcam.php

Parrots - Spanish Zoo

http://www.europarrot.com
Breeding birds...

Peregirnes - Plymouth, UK

http://www.plym-peregrines.co.uk/
For many years now there have been peregrine falcons breeding on a cliff face on the outskirts of the city of Plymouth, Devon (UK); although there is little documented evidence of their success or failure. Peregrine falcons are not the rarest of the birds of prey to be found in this country, yet they are a spectacular sight and one that gives pleasure to the many people who can witness their behaviour...

Peregrine - Canada

http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/webcams.html
There are a whole series of different WebCams across Canada...

Peregrine - Ontario, Canada

http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/tops/gutop.html
Nest box in Guelph - Ontario - Peregrine Foundation

Peregrine Foundation Webcams

http://www.eco-watch.com/heligan/index.htm
Several webcams - owls, even grass snakes!

Peregrines - Derby, UK

http://195.224.106.202/peregrine/webcam.htm
Derby City Webcam...

Puffin - Eastern Egg Rock - Maine,USA

http://puffin.bird.audubon.org/eer_cameras.html
We are working in conjunction with SeeMoreWildlife.com to provide LIVE VIDEO FOOTAGE from Eastern Egg Rock for the 2003 Mating and Nesting Season! We are working on the schedule for you to watch Eastern Egg Rock and its bird species as they go about their business of nesting and raising their young!

Purple Martin - NW USA

http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildwatch/martincam/index.html
Earlier this spring select martin nest-boxes were specially equipped with cameras about the size of a quarter. Starlings and other bird species were fended off from the nest boxes until the later arriving martins built up ownership of the new boxes.

Robin and Blackbird`s Nests

http://www.oakengrove.com/robins/index.html
For the third year, this site is dedicated to providing pictures of a pair of nesting Robins. The birds have settled on a site buried deep in ivy on the side of a house in Buckinghamshire, UK. and are currently sitting on a large clutch of eggs...

RSPB

http://www.rspb.org.uk/webcams/
RSPB Maintain a number of webcams at different reserves throughout the UK... in nesting times and at feeders...

Seabird Webcam

http://www.seabird.org/webcams.asp
...have 5 individual webcams on islands in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. 2 cameras are on the Bass Rock which is a great place to see Gannets, one camera is on the Isle of May and is great for Shags and Puffins and in the late autumn the Grey seals arrive back for the pupping season. On Fidra there are lots of Gulls and Puffins and some of the best Peregrine pictures I have seen on the web. The cameras are controlled by visitors to the seabird centre and updated every 10 seconds.

Seattle Birdcam - California USA

http://seattlebirdcam.blogspot.com/
This page will automatically reload every 10 minutes. The Seattle BirdCam operates every day during US Pacific time zone daylight hours (GMT – 8 hours). California.

Simon Knott`s Birdcam - UK

http://www.eko.clara.net/birdvideo.html
You can get very close to your Garden Bird`s and other wildlife with your BIRD WEBCAM. You`ve seen Nature programmes which get up close to the action, now you can too without the very expensive equipment... see also: http://www.simbird.com/_webcam/index.htm

Sparrowhawk - Devon, UK

http://www.habitats.freeserve.co.uk/webcam02.htm
The Sparrowhawk Webcam runs every year from the end of June, when the chicks hatch until they leave the nest. At other times you can see our best sparrowhawk webcam images from previous years by following the links below.2002 was a highly successful year for our Sparrowhawk Webcam. It will be back in Summer 2003!

Spring Into Action

http://www.wildlifecctv.co.uk/
Spring Into Action Wildlife CCTV Specialists provide a quality solution for wildlife viewing technology applications and a great amount of time and research and careful design has gone into developing the best quality systems currently available...

Swift - Switzerland

http://www.fr.ch/mhn/news/mai_2002/home_homepic_martinet.asp?web=mhn&loc=en
Enfin le plus vieil individu de la colonie a été bagué ŕ Fribourg en 1994, lorsqu`il était déjŕ adulte, et est maintenant donc âgé de plus de 10 ans...

The Thoughtful Spot - Ontario, Canada

http://www.geocities.com/thoughtfulspot2002/
Our webcam is located in Eastern Ontario Canada in an area of deciduous forest and abandoned farmland...

Tiger 8

http://www.tiger8.co.uk/khxc/index.php
Excellent and inexpensive webcams for nestboxes, feeders etc...

Traj and Joan's Birds - Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA

http://birdhousecam.net
Streaming video of birdfeeders and interior of birdhouse in Woonsocket, RI…

View Nesting Birds

http://mysite.verizon.net/vdziadosz/
A very useful site with links to many webcams around the world, listed by place or species. Each of the sites listed feature live video and/or updated photographs of a pair of nesting birds. You can follow the efforts of the parents and the progress of the young by periodically visiting these sites. Links to sites from past nesting seasons can be found on the View Nesting Birds Archives page.

White Stork - Dinkelsbühl, Germany

http://www.bn-ansbach.de/storchcam/storch.htm
Wenn Sie sich für andere Aktionen der Kreisgruppe Ansbach des Bund Naturschutz...

White Stork - Görlitz, Germany

http://www.tierpark-goerlitz.de/webcam.htm

White Storks - Storchennest - Germany

http://www.storchennest.de
At these pages you can watch the upbringing of young storks in the town of Vetschau (Germany); situated in a region called Spree forest, this year again, as it was already possible last year. Take a look at the picture archiv with time lapse snapshots from every storck-day in the Lausitz.

White Storks nest online camera POLAND

http://www.bociany.ec.pl/
White Storks nest online camera with up to 18x optical zoom - Przygodzice, Barycz Valley, South Wielkopolska region, Poland…

Wildlife at Home - Webcams

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jamiefwhite/birds.htm
...When siting nestboxes,take into account the likelihood of predation.Generally they should be placed between 2 and 5metres high,out of direct sunlight,and facing away from the prevailing wind....

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