Birding Resources

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Informational Bird Websites

• National Audubon Society (English)

• National Audubon Society (en Español)

• Audubon for Kids

• All About Birds

• Audubon Guide to North American Birds

• Bird Web (Seattle Audubon’s Guide to the Birds of Washington State)

• Washington Ornithological Society

• Audubon Washington

• American Birding Association

• Birder’s Dashboard for Washington (desktop / mobile)

• A Birder’s Guide to Washington

• Northwest Swan Conservation Association

Maps

Along the Great Washington State Birding Trail, you’ll find the best places for the best bird watching in the Evergreen State. Described in full-color maps with original artwork by Ed Newbold, birds are identified along seven routes, plus descriptions of habitat, access, and when to go.

Download each map below, or purchase a hard copy of each map ($5/map) by contacting director@pilchuckaudubon.org.

• Cascade Loop

• Puget Loop

• Olympic Loop

• Coulee Corridor

• Southwest Loop

• Sun and Sage Loop

• Palouse to Pines Loop

Email Listservs

• Tweeters - A Pacific Northwest birding list serving the University of Washington, Washington state, and the Cascadia region.

• Inland NW Birders - An email list for discussing birds and birding in the inland northwest. The area of interest is generally Idaho north of the Salmon River and Washington east of the Cascades.

• Oregon Birds - An email list for discussing birds and birding in Oregon.

Birding By Ear Resources

• Macaulay Library - thousands of recordings of birds that you can listen to and study

• All About Birds - each species profile has a few sound recordings associated with it

• Xeno-canto - thousands of recordings of birds that you can listen to and study

• Larkwire - online learning app/website that you can use to study and test yourself with

• Merlin - app that you can upload or record birdsongs to and it will help identify the species

Birding Podcasts

• BirdNote - A podcast about the joy of birds and the ways that humans can help them, through simple, everyday actions.

• Ray Brown’s Talking Birds - A live and interactive radio show about wild birds and the beauty of nature—attracting birds to your backyard, feeding them, and learning more about them.

Ethics

• American Birding Association’s “Code of Birding Ethics”

• National Audubon Society’s “Audubon’s Guide to Ethical Bird Photography and Videography”

Simplifying Bird Identification