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The following links might help you on your way. | |
| Link | My personal rating |
Description |
| World birding portals | ||
| Travellingbirder | ***** |
Great portal to a huge amount of birding trip reports all over the world. Updated frequently with new reports. |
| Birding
Hotspots Around the World |
**** |
Immense site with links to websites, ordered by country. About all countries and states are covered. Also quite some trip reports but these are getting outdated by now. This is your number one start site. |
| Fat Birder | *** |
Covering almost all countries of the world. Lot of information, lot of links. |
| Bird links to the world | *** |
Over 18000 links to about all the worlds regions. Including information on numbers of species and endemics. |
| ... | Your site? Please contact me. | |
| Trip reports | ||
| Surfbirds.com | *** |
Informative site with a good number of recent trip reports. Not all trip reports are useful. |
| Birdtours.co.uk | *** |
A lot of trip reports (over 800 from 125 countries), of which a few good ones. |
| Worldtwitch | **** |
Trip reports and much recent information on where and how to find rare birds. |
| Birding the Americas | *** |
Trip reports of North and South America. |
| Birdwatching | **** |
Homepage of Dutch worldtwitcher no. 1 Jan Vermeulen with good trip reports of his own quests for birds. |
| Another Wasted Journey... | *** |
Homepage of worldbirder Ian Merrill with a good number of trip reports. |
| John's birding trip report | *** |
Website of John van der Woude with several trip reports of his own trips. |
| Checklists | ||
| Avibase | ***** |
A site with checklists for almost all regions of the world. Including names in different languages and status information. Checklists are available in several taxonomic types |
| Bird Bytes | ** |
Downloadable Sibley and Monroe checklist. Not recently updated. |
| ... | Your site? Please contact me. | |
| Local sites - New Zealand | ||
| Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi Inc. | *** |
Background information on the conservation project island Tiritiri Matangi, including recent information on the status of the reintroduced birds. |
| Miranda Shorebird centre | *** |
Information about the shorebirds centre including recent sightings. |
*** |
Run by two of the best New Zealand birders. They offer pre-trip consultancy, itinerary advise and custom tours. The site also has some useful trip reports. | |
** |
For pelagics in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland. | |
*** |
Information on watching seabirds including several links to companies. | |
| Local sites - Sri Lanka | ||
| Baurs | ** |
With Baurs you can rent cars with birdwatching drivers and professional bird guides. The site does not offer much information of use. |
| Jetwing Travel | *** |
Jetwing is the second company with professional bird guides. Their site can be of interest during preparation. |
| The Joho Company | *** |
Relevant background information traveling abroad. |
| Dutch Foreign Affairs | ** |
Essential for Dutch travellers when checking recent travel advise. |
| Local sites - India | ||
| Delhibird | **** |
Useful information on the Delhi region. Including a large number of checlists. |
| Flamingo travels | *** |
Link to the website of the company that arranged our trip in Assam. |
| Oriental Bird Club | *** |
Background information on birding and birds in Asia. |
| Indianbirds | ** |
Nice but rather slow site with a lot of interesting topics and pics. |
| Local sites - Florida | ||
| Birding in Florida | ** |
Recent information, hotlines and more birding Florida links. This site might be dying out because the recent information is not that recent anymore. |
| Yankee Fleet | ** |
The site of the company that operates the trip to Dry Tortugas. |
| Miscellaneous | ||
| OBC Image database | **** |
Huges image database covering over 1761 species recorded in Asia. |
| BirdsPoland | *** |
Background information and tours for finding birds in Poland. |
| Birding the westside | *** |
Contains an extensive trip report to the eastern parts of Turkey, including site maps. |
| Vincent's birding trips | *** |
Personal trip reports of Vincent van der Spek. |
| Dean Birders | *** |
Birdwatching information, gallery, and daily photo reports from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire maintained by and for disabled and housebound birdwatchers. |
| Birdsounds CD | *** |
A project to make an extensive CD-ROM with birdsounds of European birds |
| Natural Born Birder | *** |
A site covering the fantastic spring migration of divers and other seabirds off SW Norway. There are also pages about birding offshore, trip reports and a photo gallery. |
| Øygarden Birding | *** |
Regularly updated bird news and pictures from one of the best birding locations in Hordaland, Norway. |
| Branta-Tours birdwatching | *** |
Branta-Tours specialises in developing and operating nature, wildlife and birding tours; they organise guided trips to observe flora and fauna, in particular birdwatching in Bulgaria, Romania and Belarus. |
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