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Links
to Other Websites
NYSDEC Links
NYSOA cooperates with the NY Department of
Environmental Conservation on several projects. Visit the DEC
Wildlife Diversity website to find information about many topics
of interest to birders. Here's a selection:
Local Birding Clubs/Organizations
Many of NYSOA's member clubs/organizations have their own websites.
Check our Member Clubs/Organizations page
for these weblinks.
Other
Organizations
- Many NYSOA member clubs/organizations are also chapters of The
National Audubon Society of New York State.
- Partners
in Flight is a cooperative effort of government, conservation, professional,
academic and industry organizations to address declining bird populations.
- The Institute
for Bird Population Studies (IBP) is a Californian non-profit
organization founded in 1989 to foster a global approach to the study
of changes in bird populations. IBP is best known for its Monitoring
Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program, a network of over
500 standardized bird-banding stations throughout the continental
U.S. and Canada.
Banded and Marked Birds
Find out all about banding and report any banded birds you see at
the website of the Bird
Banding Laboratory at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Projects
& Studies
Birding
Hotspots in New York
Many of our member clubs/organizations have websites with
great information on local birding destinations.
US
Fish and Wildlife Service manages several refuges in New York,
all great places to bird!
The National
Park Service New York sites include Jamaica
Bay, part of the Gateway
National Recreation Area. Several of the Historic Sites aren't
just for history buffs, but have trails through nice birding habitat.
Many New
York State Parks offer wonderful birding opportunities.
NY
Chapters of The
Nature Conservancy maintain many preserves, protecting habitat and
good birding places.
The Hudson
Valley Raptor Center, located in Dutchess County, rehabilitates injured
hawks and owls and provides a home for those that are not releasable.
Some of their permanent residents participate in education programs.
The Pfeiffer
Nature Center, near Olean, NY has a new website.
The Waterman
Conservation Education Center, in Apalachin, NY operates four wildlife
refuges in south central New York.
The NYSDEC's Wildlife
Viewing Guide page has information on a number of superb birding locations
across the state. In addition, check out the county-by-county list of
Wildlife
Management Areas for information about and directions to many great
destinations for birders.
Education
Home
Study Course in Bird Biology, second edition - Cornell Laboratory
of Ornithology.
Learn about birds at your own pace. A college-level course written for
people of varied backgrounds and experience levels. Check out the website
using the above link for a course overview, author profiles, FAQs, and
a fun bird quiz.
Health
To report dead birds, particularly dead crows, contact your local county
health department or call toll free at 1-866-537-BIRD. Visit these
sites for more information about West
Nile Virus and reporting
dead crows.
Pelagic
Trips
Pelagic birding and whale watch trips departing from Montauk harbor
offer a convenient means for birders to find species such as
Cory's
Shearwater,
Greater
Shearwater and Wilson's Storm-petrel in NY waters. The Coastal Research
and Education Society of Long Island (CRESLI)
runs such trips.
Although CRESLI
will not be running any single day whale watch trips in the
summer
of 2003, there will be three 48-51 hour trips: two trips
to the Great South Channel (departing July 20 and August 17) and 1 trip to Hydrographer
and Veatch
Canyons (departing August 3). For
more information check
out the CRESLI
website or contact CRESLI at
631-244-3352 (new phone number—CRESLI
has moved to Dowling College).
Reservations: Reservations are
required and should be made via the CRESLI
reservations web page.
If you are able go on one of these trips, please send your sightings
to the NYCRBA (via Tom Burke or Tony Lauro, 212-979-3070)
and the
of the Kingbird. Even if the results are not spectacular, the information
helps us monitor the seasonal occurrence of seabirds off Long Island.
Mailing
Lists (Listservs) 
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Below you will find signup instructions for some regional
mailing lists on birding in New York State. Mailing lists are informal
discussion groups that allow information exchange via email. To join
such a discussion group, you need to subscribe by sending a specifically
formatted email message to a computer that will add you to the distribution
list for that group (some groups provide an online subscription form
as an alternative to sending an email to sign up). Subsequently, you
will receive email notes from other members of the group, and you can
send your own notes so that everyone in the group can read them and
respond to them.
Help us spread the word about
other NYS mailing lists! If you know about local or regional
birding listservs in New York State that are not listed below, please
with the information.
NYSBIRDS-L
NYSBirds-L is
an email list focused on birds and birding in New York State. It is
not for the discussion of pet birds or falconry, except as far as these
topics directly relate to wild birds. The primary purpose of the list
is to disseminate information about bird sightings in New York State
in a timely manner. Questions and limited discussions on topics such
as bird behavior, identification, conservation, and distribution, especially
as these subjects relate to birds in New York State, are welcomed and
encouraged..
To join the
list, send an email to
, leave subject
line blank, and the body of the message should read:
JOIN NYSBIRDS-L “firstname
lastname”
Where“firstname lastname”is
to be replaced by your given name and your surname.
INCLUDE
THE QUOTATION MARKS AROUND YOUR NAME.
The listprocessor
is an automated system and will extract your email address from the
header of your message. Since a computer,
not a person, will read your message, additional words to make the message
more polite are unnecessary and will interfere with the computer's
ability to find the information it's looking for.
You will receive a welcome email which will tell you how to change your
mail options and how to unsubscribe from the list. These instructions
can be found online at http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cth4/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm.
More information
on using mailing lists hosted at Cornell can be found at http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/elist/lyris/.
Cayugabirds-L
To join the
list, send an email to
, leave subject line blank, and the body of the message should read:
JOIN CAYUGABIRDS-L
The listprocessor
is an automated system and will extract your email address from the
header of your message. Since a computer, not a person, will
read your message, additional words to make the message more polite
are unnecessary and will interfere with the computer's ability to
find the information it's looking for.
More
information on using mailing lists hosted at Cornell can be found
at http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/elist/lyris/.
CVBirds
(Chemung Valley)
CVBIRDS is a listserve for nature lovers in the Chemung
Valley area of NY State. The primary focus of the list is wild birds,
their behavior, actions, sightings, and environment. Other nature
topics can be discussed as well.
To join, or to learn more, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CVBIRDS/
eBirdsNYC  9/18/07
eBirdsNYC is primarily for reporting wild bird sightings
within NYC and the surrounding areas, defined deliberately vaguely
- it might include places like Brigantine and Cape May in migration,
the Adirondacks and Catskills during winter etc. Basically anywhere
that's a reasonable day-trip for NYC-based birders that has interesting
birds. A long-standing NYC metro general sightings
list with over 600 members.
To join, or to learn more, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ebirdsnyc
Geneseebirds-L
This group
focuses on birds and birding in western New York. To join the list,
visit http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l
HMBirds (Hudson-Mohawk)
This group is mainly for reports of birds in the eleven
counties surrounding Albany, NY. Unusual extralimital reports are
also welcome.
To join, or to learn more, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hmbirds/
Metro
Birding Briefs
Lloyd Spitalnik and the New York City Audubon Society are
proud to announce METRO BIRDING BRIEFS, a new e-mail board for the exchange
of newsworthy bird sightings in the NY metro area.
The need for this service arises from an increased demand by active field
observers for succinct, rapidly available, relevant information which
can be acted upon quickly. To state the obvious: rare birds are often
present for short periods of time and this service will be set up to provide
the most timely information available for interested birders to pursue
Reported sightings should be only those of rarely occurring birds, early
arrivals, late lingerers or any other unusual bird one might be willing
to chase.
The area of coverage is from Montauk to Cape May and points north. This
area should be able to be driven on a round trip basis in one day from
NYC.
To join, or to learn more, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/btblue/
MidHudsonBirds
A forum for the discussion, communication, and reporting
of wild bird observations in the Ulster, Dutchess, Greene, and Columbia
County areas of New York State, including the Catskill and Shawangunk
Mountains. Related natural history observations within this geographical
area, and relevant posts from outside of this area are also welcome.
To join, or to learn more, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MidHudsonBirds/
Northern_NY_Birds
A discussion area for amateur to expert birders to report
rare, unusual, or simply interesting bird sightings in Northern NY.
This would include the Adirondacks, St. Lawrence, Tug Hill, Eastern
Lake Ontario, and Lake Champlain areas. Loosely, anywhere east of Lake
Ontario/I-81 and north of I-90. Relevant cross-postings from neighboring
groups are also encouraged.
On the website (see below), events and trips relative to the group
may be posted and/or placed on the group calendar. Birding-related
photos, files, and polls may also be uploaded.
To join Northern_NY_Birds, send an email to Northern_NY_Birds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Or use the online form http://groups.yahoo.com/group/northern_NY_birds/
Oneidabirds
The mailing list
for central New York. To join the list, send the command shown below
in the first line of a piece of electronic mail to ,
leave subject line blank, and the body of the message should read subscribe
Oneidabirds firstname lastname
In the line
above, firstname lastname is, of course, your
real name. The listprocessor is an automated system and will extract
your email address from the header of your message. Since
a computer, not a person, will read your message, additional
words to make the message more polite are unnecessary and will
interfere with the computer's ability to find the information
it's looking for.
You will be sent back a confirmation message. All you
need to do with this is hit reply and you will become a member of
the list. More information
and archives can be found at http://www.borg.com/~svcselem/kirkland/oneidabirds/.
OSBirds (Otsego-Schoharie)
Bird sightings and discussion about birds for area
around Otsego & Schoharie counties of New York; also gets sightings
from Delaware and Chenango Counties.
To join, or to learn more, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osbirds/
SINaturaList 9/18/07
This group is for people interested in
bird watching on Staten Island, and all natural science and
environmental news relating to Staten Island, NY.
We encourage members to post news about Staten Island's environmental
issues, meetings, activities and WALKS, as well as bird, and
wildlife sighting.
To join, or to learn more, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sinaturalist
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