BIRDS

Photograph of "Kelp Gull" (Larus dominicanus). First North American Record, R.D. Purrington and Larry O'Meallie (photo by LOM)

Account of discovery of Kelp Gulls on Curlew Island, 1989

Male Calliope Hummingbird at my property near Durango, CO, 2006.

PEDESTRIAN'S GUIDE TO SOME LARGE GULLS

• Information on LOUISIANA birds

  AOU Checklist

  Gull Identification Website

  Birding on the Net. Wide range of bird/birding resources.

  BirdNet, from the Ornithological Council, with summaries of ornithological literature, various links, including AOU page

  Avian Sounds from Costa Rica (including some species which breed in the U.S.)

  Information on interpreting NEXRAD images from Frank Peace

  "Application of Weather Radar to Monitoring Numbers of birds in Migration, by John Black, Brock U.

  Intepreting bird migration using NEXRAD radar, from John Black

  Texas Bird Records Committee Web site

  Texas Ornithological Society Web page

  Martin Reid's Home Page, with ID issues and excellent photos, including many great gull photos (Herring, Kelp, etc.) in a wide variety of plumages.

  Greg Lasley's Home Page. See Kelp and other gull photos.

  Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi, with hawkwatching links and links to Frank Peace's site

  NBS Wood Stork monitoring project, including Louisiana bird

  
  

  Dusky Flycatcher in Gambel Oak habitat, Durango, CO(photo RDP)

  Photos of some Colorado birds, Durango, CO

• Central Texas Birding Home Page

• Access to RBAs, etc. through www.birder.com

• Computer Applications in wildlife science

• NBS Inventory and Monitoring Section

  Birdsource Project from NAS and the Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell

  Breeding Bird Survey

  Will Russell's ID Frontiers (archives)

  ABA List of Birds of Continental U.S. and Canada, courtesty Baltimore Bird Club

  Denis Lepage's Quebec Home Page and over 600 links

  Michael Smith's Home Page at U Wash. Includes astronomy and astrophysics.

  Maurice Barnhill's Home Page. Various Bird Resources.

  Dave Rintoul's Home Page

  Lisa Bryan's Home Page--Arizona

  Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory

  Jack Siler's Internet Birding Resources,

  "Top Bird Sites in Europe

  Jack Siler's Birding on the Web

  Texas Coastal Bend Hotline Number: (512) 265-0377

  Natural History Book Service

  Paul Conover's Southwest Louisiana Birding Page

  Shreveport Bird Study Group plus MANY bird-related (and un-related) sources

  Electronic Resources on Ornithology

  Bird Iowa Web Page

  Rara Avis Costa Rica Web Site

  Paul Hertzel's Tennessee and Regional Birding Page.

  Neotropical Bird Club

  Austrailian Pelagic Birding Homepage

  Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology homepage

  Heuglin's

  Greg Lasley's Web Site

Video clip of hybrid gull at Fourchon, 9/17/00