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Birding Organisations
Every self-respecting birder should be a member of at least two organisations ensuring that her or his contribution is doing something to promote birding, and, more importantly, the welfare of birds. Firstly we must all support our national bird conservation organisation such as, in the UK, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The RSPB is the largest conservation organisation in Europe and not only preserves rich or scare bird habitats the length and breadth of the UK but it also keeps the welfare of birds on the political agenda and in the public eye. Love it or loathe it there is no doubt that we all owe the RSPB a great debt. Secondly we should belong to our local county bird club or state chapter. Your local club can help keep you informed about what is happening in your own backyard and it is a great place to meet neighbours with the same interests as your self. Moreover, it is likely to have reserves of its own, and to organise outings and meetings. As for the birds you can usually help them through your local club whether it be offering your free time to help maintain reserves or just by recording what you see in the county. Local clubs are the bedrock of conservation and patch-work. Those of you with a slightly deeper interest will find that there is a huge amount of information available and joining an ornithological union (such as the British Trust for Ornithology - BTO - in the UK) will give you access to many thousands of scientific papers over many years of study. A few pounds or dollars thus spent by every birder would ensure the future of wild birds throughout the world. |
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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!
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*BirdingPal
http://birdingpal.org/OK not exactly an organisation but a way to get help when visiting a new state or country.
*Proact
http://proactnow.orgProtest, Alert and Action Contact & Coordination for birders anywhere in the world - Submit your ideas, themes, problems or campaign. - A brilliant idea, at last a (virtual) place to get together and protest with some effect!
A Rocha
http://en.arocha.org/home/A Rocha is an international conservation organisation working to show God`s love for all creation. Our work has five distinctive characteristics: Christian: we are motivated by our biblical faith, particularly in God the Creator. Conservation: we focus on scientific studies of important habitats and species. Community: we bring people together for environmental education and action, with special emphasis on students and school children. Cross-cultural: we involve staff and volunteers internationally and give priority to parts of the world where resources for conservation and Christian witness are limited. Campaigning: we work with local and international agencies for the protection of key areas and environments.
African Bird Club
http://www.africanbirdclub.org/ABC recently launched a new service to help members with information requests. Perhaps you are planning a trip to Africa and need local advice, or maybe you are in search of an obscure fact about an African species. We cannot guarantee to have all of the answers, but we will try to help. The service is provided free to ABC Members. If you need information, then contact Keith Betton, who is also the custodian of ABCs journal library.
Army Ornithological Society
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tim_hallchurch/AOS.htmThe Army Ornithological Society is open to all serving and retired members of the Army including TA and Commonwealth forces plus MOD Civil Servants or Civil Servants who have served with the army anywhere in the world and their spouses. Others with close connections to the Army may also be eligible at the discretion of the AOS Committee. Members of the RNBWS and RAFOS are also welcome to join AOS expeditions.
Army Ornithological Society
http://armyos.tripod.com/"Members have been on expeditions to The Gambia, Spain, Bulgaria, Israel, Morocco, Cyprus, Belize and The Pyrenees. The 2000 expedition will be to Zimbabwe (now fully subscribed) and 2001 to Nepal and India. The 2002 overseas expedition will probably be back to Belize. Members are also invited to join RNBWS and RAFOS expeditions. Those on expeditions have ranged from serving private soldiers to a retired officer over 80." This is more about expeditions.
Aviscience
http://www.aviscience.com/A new and building scientific resource for ornithologists and birders everywhere...
Barn Owl Trust
http://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/Our free national (and now international) information and advice service is available to anyone who needs help or advice on encouraging wild Barn Owls, creating habitat, putting up nest boxes, etc. We have a set of 30 information leaflets covering most of the main Barn Owl questions. We have published the definitive guide for planners and developers.
Bird On
http://www.birdcare.com/birdonThank you for visiting Bird On! - the Internet wild bird pages. Birdwatchers in the UK and USA have come together to provide current and fascinating information for everyone who is aware of the wild birds around them. Bird On! is published by Jacobi Jayne & Company, the World`s Birdfeeders™. You may search Bird On! to locate information that matches various criteria. Here`s a summary of what you will find at Bird On!.
BirdLife HQ
http://www.birdlife.org.uk/Together for Birds and People - The BirdLife Partnership is working to improve the quality of life for birds, people and other wildlife.
BirdLife International
http://www.birdlife.net/BirdLife is a global Partnership of conservation organisations with a focus on birds that works together on shared priorities, policies and programmes of conservation action, exchanging skills, achievements and information, growing in ability, authority and influence.
British Birds Rarities Committee
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/yrr86/bbrc.htmThe BBRC is the official adjudicator of rare bird records in Britain. Its members are democratically elected by birders` representatives in each county and serve for a fixed term...
British Ornithologists Union
http://www.bou.org.ukThe British Ornithologists` Union aims to encourage the study of birds in Britain, Europe and throughout the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation.
British Trust for Ornithology
http://www.bto.orgThe British Trust for Ornithology has existed since 1933 as an independent, scientific research trust, investigating the populations, movements and ecology of wild birds in the British Isles. Our speciality is the design and implementation of volunteer wild bird surveys. Our partnership between a large number of volunteers and a small scientific staff has proved to be a powerful, productive and cost-effective way of monitoring wild birds.
Budget Birders Club
http://www.jdbirdman.pwp.blueyonder.co.ukNot exactly an organisation but not a company either... The Budget birders club is new and probably the first club of its kind. Its objective is to help birders reach destinations overseas within their budgets. To do this the aim of the club has been to set up a membership register of birders throughout the country. What makes the club unique is the way in which it has been set up. By compiling and amalgamating its resources from the birding fraternity for the good of the birding fraternity. This will be achieved furthermore by co-ordintaing your input along with the clubs resourses.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
http://birds.cornell.edu/The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a nonprofit membership institution dedicated to interpreting and conserving the earth`s biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. World renowned for their ornithological expertise, their programs include Bird Population Studies, Conservation, Citizen Science, Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, and Bioacoustice Research Program. They are an independent administrative unit of Cornell University; primary support for the Lab comes from more than 26,000 members worldwide. They are pioneers in the research of whales, forest elephants, and of course, birds. They invite you to become a member.
Disabled Birders Association (UK)
http://www.disabledbirdersassociation.co.uk/The Disabled Birders Association was founded on 1st April 2000 - an auspicious date, but one which should not be taken to mean that our purpose is in anyway frivolous. The DBA is an international movement to promote access to reserves and other birding places and to a range of services so that people with special needs can follow the birding obsession as freely as able-bodied people.
Earth Sanctuaries
http://www.esl.com.au/OK this isn`t a birding organisation but I have included it because it is ground breaking… the first environmental organisation to float on the stock exchange. A wonderful Australian idea to turn Australian countryside back to its natural form with its natural ecology just by fencing it off and eliminating the intruders and introductions. Marvelous! - ESL has now satisfied all of the requirements for listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. Therefore, when the current Prospectus 2000 closes, ESL will be the world`s first publicly listed company in the world with the core business of conservation. You can be part of this revolution. An electronic version of the Prospectus is available here. You can link to E-Trade. If you would like a hard copy of the Prospectus, please email your postal address to prospectus@esl.com.au.
European Ornithologists` Union
http://www.eou.atThe European Ornithologists` Union aims to encourage the study of birds in Europe and throughout the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation. c/o Stephan Trösch, Hintergasse 22, CH-8268 Salenstein, Switzerland.
Friends of the Earth
http://www.foe.co.uk/Wild Places under threat! Look up your local wildlife sites. See if they are threatened and what you can do to protect them.
Game Conservancy Trust
http://www.gct.org.uk/The Game Conservancy Trust is a registered charity which seeks to promote the conservation of game in the British countryside. Over 50 scientists are engaged in detailed research of game ecology and farmland wildlife. Using their results, Game Conservancy Ltd advises landowners, farmers and other conservationists on practical management techniques, which will benefit game and wildlife. We are a membership-based organization with a membership of around 26,000 members.
Gay Birders Club
http://www.gbc-online.org.uk/If you are gay or lesbian, if you enjoy birdwatching - or would like to, why not find out more about the Gay Birders Club by exploring our web site.
Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/With 20 million people living in the region it is clear that to save the Amazon rainforest requires finding real economic alternatives and solutions to destructive logging as well as the other destructive activities like cattle ranching, mining, soya plantations and huge projects like dams.
Hawk & Owl Trust
http://www.hawkandowl.orgWelcome to The Hawk and Owl Trust Website. Owls, hawks, eagles, falcons - magnificent birds like these symbolise freedom and wild places. The Hawk and Owl Trust is dedicated to ensuring that birds of prey survive in the wild for future generations to enjoy. Founded in 1969 because of concerns about the alarming decline in numbers of peregrines and other raptors, today we work to conserve all wild birds of prey and their habitats in the face of mounting human pressures.
Hawk Conservancy
http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/Welcome to the Hawk Conservancy web site. We want your visit to this web site to be as enjoyable and instructive as is a visit to our premises to find out more about the important work being done here, and about the fascinating world of raptors - birds of prey. We welcome suggestions that may help us to achieve this aim. We feature a different bird of prey each week, generally changing on Friday or Saturday night. This feature appears as the Bird of the Week with RealAudio® calls, where available.
Hawkwatch International
http://www.hawkwatch.org/Background to Hawkwatch and information about a number of their projects.
HomeEarth.com
http://www.homeearth.com/HomeEarth.com is a unique online community tailored to people who cherish the earth and all of its marvelous inhabitants. Our quest is to empower earth-friendly clubs and their members so they may spend less time worrying about issues like membership dues, communications and fundraising and have more time to enjoy what they are trying so desperately to protect. HomeEarth.com is the first to offer a comprehensive set of services and tools in real time to both club members and administrators. So look around and find a new cause today or enhance your existing club with an online presence. Experience Life. Experience Nature. Experience HomeEarth.com!
International Ornithological Committee
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/IOC/index.htmlThe International Ornithological committee is a group of international ornithologists, about 200 in number, which is responsible for the International Ornithological Congress and other international ornithological activity such as those undertaken by its Standing Committees.
International Osprey Foundation
http://www.ospreys.com/The International Osprey Foundation is dedicated to the continuing recovery and preservation of the osprey, others in the raptor family, wildlife and the environment as a whole. The Foundation conducts monitoring activities, and accumulates data specific to the breeding activities of the osprey population. The data is made available through the Foundations newsletter publication and can be obtained by interested parties/organizations upon request...
Malawi Ornithological Society
http://www.malawibirds.org/The Malawi Ornithological Society was formed in 1996. Ornithology in Malawi has for many years been pursued by some members of Ornithological Unit of Wildlife Society of Malawi (now known as Wildlife & Environmental Society)... c/o Department of Ornithology, Museum of Malawi, PO Box 30360, Chichiri, Blantyre 3, Malawi
National Bird-Feeding Society
http://www.birdfeeding.org/US Organisation - We lead pell-mell lifestyles with such competition for our time that it`s easy for stress to take over. But watching the acrobatic antics of finches at your feeders provides a few moments of pure pleasure, guaranteed to refresh your day. I love the fun of bird feeding and want to find out more about attracting birds to my yard, wrote Anne Michaels from North Carolina. That`s what the National Bird-Feeding Society is about, helping people to further enjoy a hobby that is entertaining and educational.
National Sound Archive
http://www.bl.uk/Part of the British Library a resource to everyone.
Neotropical Bird Club
http://www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/Neotropical Bird Club, UK registered charity 1040130, has been established: to foster an interest in the birds of the Neotropics amongst birdwatchers throughout the world to increase awareness of the importance of support for conservation in the region to mobilise the increasing number of enthusiastic birdwatchers active in the region to contribute to the conservation of Neotropical birds to provide a forum for the publication of articles and notes about Neotropical birds, their identification and conservation, and thus enhance information exchange in this subject area to channel efforts towards priority species and sites, drawing attention to conservation needs to publicise the activities of local groups and individuals, and improve their liaison and collaboration with other birdwatchers.
Oriental Bird Club
http://www.orientalbirdclub.orgOriental Bird Club is concerned with birds of the region spanning from: the Indus river, Pakistan in the west through India and south-east Asia to the Wallacea line, East Indonesia in the east, and from the Yangtze basin, China in the north to the Lesser Sundas and Christmas Island in the south. This vast area embraces tropical and temperate forests, outstanding wetlands and grasslands providing habitat for over 2000 bird species, many of them little known.
Ornithological Societies of North America
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/OSNA/Ornithological Societies of North America (OSNA) is the joint membership and billing service of: AOU American Ornithologists` Union, AFO Association of Field Ornithologists, COS Cooper Ornithological Society, RRF Raptor Research Foundation, WS The Waterbird Society, WOS Wilson Ornithological Society...
Ornithological Society of the Middle East
http://www.osme.org/The Ornithological Society of the Middle East was formed in April 1978 as a successor to the Ornithological Society of Turkey. Its aims are as follows: To collect, collate and publish ornithological data on birds of the Middle East. To encourage an interest in and conservation of birds of the Middle East. To assist environmental and conservation organisations and natural history societies in and concerned with ornithological studies and activities in the Middle East.
Pacific Seabird Group
http://www.pacificseabirdgroup.org/The Pacific Seabird Group (PSG) is a society of professional seabird researchers and managers dedicated to the study and conservation of seabirds. PSG was formed in 1972 out of a need for increased communication among academic and government seabird researchers. The principle goals of PSG are (1) to increase the quality and quantity of seabird research through facilitating exchange of information and (2) to identify and assess the importance of threats to seabird populations and provide government agencies and others with expert advice on managing the threats and populations.
Raptor Rescue (UK)
http://www.raptorrescue.org.uk/Originally founded by a group of falconers in the North West of England, Raptor Rescue is a national charity with an established reputation in the worlds of wildlife rehabilitation and falconry. The organisation has a national network of rehabilitators and other experienced carers, who take on this time-consuming work, but a great deal of resources are still required to pay for housing, feeding, veterinary help and transportation.
Rare Birds of the World
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2408/critical.html168 Species are currently considered to have a critical conservation status by IUCN and BirdLife International. This generally means that these species are presumed to have a 50% chance of becoming extinct in the next five years. Four other species are considered to be extinct in the wild.
Rare Breeding Birds Panel
http://www.rbbp.org.ukThe Rare Breeding Birds Panel was formed in 1972 by representatives of RSPB, British Birds, the British Trust for Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy Council. The present Panel is made up of representatives of the first three organisations plus the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The Panel`s prime function is to act as a secure depository of sensitive information on the breeding of rare birds in Britain. As its database has grown, the information it contains has proved to be of considerable value to the three country conservation agencies and a confidential report is compiled for them each year, though omitting nest locations if requested by the observer.
Royal Air Force Ornithological Society
http://www.rafos.org.uk/Founded in 1965 for members of the Service interested in ornithology, RAFOS currently has approximately 220 members who are past and present members of the Armed Forces, MOD civilians/contract staff and their families.
RSPB
http://www.rspb.org.ukWelcome to the RSPB online. Have a look around the site to see why we are Europe`s largest wildlife conservation charity, supported by over 1,000,000 members, including over 150,000 under 18 years old.
Waterways Trust
http://www.thewaterwaystrust.co.ukOur task is to promote the widest possible public awareness and enjoyment of the UK waterways. We will work in partnership with individuals, communities and organisations, to conserve, restore, improve and interpret all aspects of waterways. Through our work we will realise sustainable benefits for all sectors of the community in terms of recreation, education, conservation, as well as social and economic welfare.
Wildfowl & Wetland Trust
http://www.wwt.org.ukIn 1946, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) was founded on the banks of the River Severn at Slimbridge in Gloucestershire by the painter and naturalist, the late Sir Peter Scott. His aim was to establish a centre for the scientific study, public display and conservation of the wildfowl of the world. In 1973, Peter Scott became the first person to be knighted for services to conservation. WWT`s mission - to save wetlands for wildlife and people - reflects the importance that is attached to bringing people and wetland wildlife together, for the benefit of both.
Women in Ornithology Resource Group
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~tsipoura/worglist.htmlIn the fall of 1994, with the help of G.C. (Chuck) Banks at the National Biological Survey, WORGNET, a public electronic network for ornithologists was created. There are now 75 subscribers to WORGNET. We have found this to be an important vehicle for reaching researchers interested in the activities of WORG and for helping women who might not be able to regularly attend AOU meetings to feel connected to other ornithologists. In addition, WORGNET has facilitated discussion on issues in ornithology that are of particular interest, but not exclusively, to women. From some of the topics explored to date on WORGNET it is clear that there is a need to develop panel discussions or workshops at future AOU meetings to help address these issues in greater depth.
Woodland Trust
http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/Find your nearest woodland that is managed for conservation.
Working Group on International Waderbird and Wetland Research
http://www.wiwo-international.org/The Working Group on International Waderbird and Wetland Research (WIWO) was established in 1983, in order to create a well-defined and accessible intermediary between financing organisations and governmental bodies on the one hand, and volunteer ornithologists interested in studying waterbirds in countries with little own potential for such studies on the other.
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