Other Links
Birding Sites in New Mexico
- Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
- Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park (National Park Service)
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park (Great Outdoors Recreation Pages)
- Gila Cliff Dwellings
- Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge
- Maxwell National Wildlife Refuge
- US Forest Service Website (Search “by state” at the top for New Mexico
- National Forests in New Mexico (Great Outdoors Recreation Pages)
- New Mexico State Parks (listing, directions, and other info)
- Rattlesnake Springs
- White Sands National Monument (National Park Service)
- Southwest New Mexico Birding Trail
Other New Mexico Bird-related Sites on the Web
- Annual Festival of the Cranes, Bosque del Apache NWR.
- Bird checklists for New Mexico wildlife refuges and national monuments from the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center.
- Bosque Bill’s sightings database for the Alameda Bridge area, Albuquerque.
- Central New Mexico Audubon Society (Albuquerque)
- El Paso-Trans Pecos Audubon Society
- Hawks Aloft
- High Plains Lesser Prairie Chicken Festival
- Lincoln County Bird Club
- New Mexico Christmas Bird Counts, compiler information for upcoming season only available late in the year
- Dick and Jean Hoffman’s New Mexico trips page
- Robert Hole’s New Mexico birding page
- Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico (and a direct link to the Bird Department)
- New Mexico Audubon Society
- New Mexico Breeding Bird Atlas hosted by USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
- New Mexico Avian Conservation Partners (NMACP) - formerly Partners in Flight
- Randall Davey Audubon Center, Santa Fe
- Rio Grande Nature Center, Albuquerque
- Sangre de Cristo Audubon Society
- Southeastern New Mexico Audubon Society (Roswell)
- Southwestern New Mexico Audubon Society
Web Indexes for Birding
- Electronic Resources in Ornithology, a mega-index of ornithological websites
- Fat Birder, an excellent comprehensive web page on all aspects of birding
- O.W.L. Ornithological Worldwide Literature, another mega-index
- Yahoo’s bird page, yet another mega-index
- Birdingonthe.Net, rare bird alerts and chat lines
Birding, Ornithology, Wildlife, and Conservation Organizations
- American Bird Conservancy
- American Birding Association
- Arizona Bird Committee
- Arizona Field Ornithologists
- Avian Conservation and Ecology
- BIRDNET, by Ornithological Council
- Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico
- Colorado Field Ornithologists
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
- Glossary of Avian Terms for Use in Avian Conservation Biology
- Great Basin Bird Observatory
- Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
- HawkWatch International
- The Institute for Bird Populations
- International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD)
- National Audubon Society
- The Nature Conservancy, New Mexico
- New Mexico Burrowing Owl Working Group
- New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
- Natural Heritage New Mexico
- North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) – U.S.
- North American Breeding Bird Survey. Lots of information on and analyses of the data, plus much useful and interesting information on birds in general.
- Ornithological Societies of North America homepage (includes American Ornithologists’ Union, Association of Field Ornithologists, Cooper Ornithological Society, Wilson Ornithological Society, and others)
- Partners in Flight
- The Peregrine Fund
- Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory
- Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory
- State & Provincial ornithological societies. Links to 28 different state societies and committees, including our old site; this page doesn’t seem to be updated.
- Texas Ornithological Society
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges in New Mexico
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Migratory Bird Management
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2 (NM, AZ, TX, and OK)
- U. S. Forest Service click on search by state to get National Forests in NM
Other Useful Information and Interesting Sites
- Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection of bird art at Cornell University Library
- Bird Banding Laboratory , where you can also find out how to report a band recovery
- Bird Checklists of the United States (mostly NWRs) from the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center.
- Birding magazine (ABA on line index (click for Archives)
- BirdingPal, a registry of local expertise for traveling birders
- Bird Links to the World
- Birds of North America are now available online through Cornell Lab of Ornithology for a small fee.
- BirdSource from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Lots of animated distribution maps, conservation information, Project Feeder Watch, Great Backyard Bird Count, and more.
- BISON-M: Biota Information System Of New Mexico. Information on rare and endangered species in New Mexico.
- Butterflies and Moths of North America where you can do a search by state.
- Christmas Bird Count
- Crossbill AV guide. Help to sort out those pesky Red Crossbills.
- Damselflies of New Mexico with county records.
- Dragonflies of New Mexico with county records.
- Hotlines Information on birding hotlines from The Virtual Birder
- New Jersey Audubon Society, including reviews of video and CD-ROM products, poetry, hummingbird and butterfly gardening, news of the “World Series of Birding,” and more.
- New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
- “Obsolete English names of North American birds and their modern equivalents,” by Richard C. Banks. Ever hear of a “twixt-hell-and-the-white-oak”?
- Outline map of New Mexico counties
- Project Feeder Watch from Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
- Surfbirds – the world birding website
- Travelling Birder “The hospitality exchange club for birders”
- Vireo, Visual Resources in Ornithology, the largest repository of bird images.
- The Virtual Birder, an online birding magazine
- Zoological Data Processing (includes information on those four-letter codes and Christmas Bird Count database projects)
