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Useful Web Links for
Garden Birdwatchers
Please remember that the BTO is not responsible
for linked external sites and cannot verify the accuracy of the
information they contain. Information on the legal or conservation
status of wild birds provided by sites from other countries may
not be applicable in the U.K. or Ireland.
Please tell us
about any broken links
Garden BirdWatch Volunteers' own sites
If you are a GBW participant and you have a web site
that is relevant to Garden BirdWatch and would be of interest to
other participants, let us know if you would like a link.
Elizabeth Brigg
A wonderful site showing the nesting activities of her Blue Tits
at http://www.biggonline.co.uk/
Greg's Bird Bloggings
Not just garden birds but all the joy of birdwatching http://www.siddons.me.uk
David Jones
Great Tit nestbox webcam http://www.mybitoftheplanet.com
David Gains of Sheffield
"Find out about the birds that visit a garden in Sheffield,
England, on this award winning site."
http://www.garden-birds.co.uk
Pat Mullen's page about the garden at Carrickrobin,
near Kilkerley, Co.Louth.
http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~srameen/html/BirdWatch.html
Jeremy Pidgeon's Wildlife Site http://www.gardenwildlife.co.uk/
Sarah Longrigg
Don't miss Fred's amazing Rotifers http://www.fredandsarah.plus.com/
Stephen Welch
A change of gardens has brought a change of birds http://www.geocities.com/steve_extra/garden.html
General garden bird interest
Magpie and Crow control
Advice and information
on the legal position from the DETR.
http://www.wildlife-countryside.detr.gov.uk/wildcrime/crime/law/4_3_23.htm
Project FeederWatch
Garden BirdWatch was
partly inspired by this project.
http://birds.cornell.edu/PFW/
More Information about the Direct Debit system
We encourage Garden BirdWatch
volunteers to pay their annual contribution by this method.
http://www.directdebit.co.uk
Check your Postcode
It helps us very much
if you tell us your correct postcode when you enrol in Garden BirdWatch.
http://www.afd.co.uk/pcsearch.htm
“Abandoned” baby birds.
Some good advice here.
Again it is aimed at US readers but the principles are sound.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/advice4.htm
More useful rehab sites
http://www.geocities.com/birds_etc/rehab/rehab1.htm
http://www.birdfeeding.org/baby_bird.html
Garden Bird Web Pages from the BBC
Watch Out: Links from this page lead to various
projects and activities that might be of interest to Garden BirdWatch
participants. http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchout/60garden.shtml
UK Wild: garden bird information
and surveys for kids.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukwild/garden_bird_info.shtml
Bird Table Webcam:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/reallywild/webcams
Wildlife Gardening
Wildlife Gardening Bulletin Board
USA based, but these
questions and the many lively answers are still full of interest.
http://www.nature.net/forums/garden/
Wildlife Gardening Sites
Interesting UK-based site by Stephen Kirkup
http://www.curlewhaugh.co.uk/
Flora for Fauna Database
Enter your postcode and
get advice on native plants that will suit the wildlife in your
locality. Also a useful suppliers list. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/fff/
Urban Wildlife Webring
Access to the Urban Wildlife Web Ring courtesy of Brickfields
Country Park
http://brickfieldspark.org/uwringhome.htm
Garden BirdWatch Species
Garden Birdwatch has done the surfing for you! Here are the web
sites we have found for our study species, so far. Feel free to
e-mail us with any more interesting links you come across. gbw@bto.org
Features on many
GBW species can be found at http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/index.htm
Robin
Rolyrobin is famous! http://www.btinternet.com/~chris.sykes1/index.html
In German:
http://www.forst.uni-muenchen.de/LST/ZOO/HEITLAND/BSWT/AVES/PASSERIFORMES/
TURDIDAE/erithacus.rubecula_01.html
In Dutch, including song:
http://www.geocities.com/ivn_vogels_park_bos/Roodborst_Erithacus-rubecula.html
In Spanish:
http://utopiaverde.org/comunes/fauna/aves/erithacus-rubecula/home.html
In French:
http://www.sepol.asso.fr/especes/erirub.html
Blackbird
In German but
well worth a look: http://tv.freepage.de/kasi/daniel/amsel/amsel.htm
Interesting research:
http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/sites/bmscg/turdus.htm
House Sparrow
From America: http://www.slivoski.com/birding/hspar.htm
Nest observations: http://www.sciam.com/0796issue/0796amsci.html
Starling
American site: http://home.earthlink.net/~kstarling/public/birds.htm?=
Current behavioural research: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kgroup/research.html
Dunnock
In Dutch:
http://www.geocities.com/ivn_vogels_park_bos/Heggemus_Prunella-modularis.html
Affectionate account from New Zealand. http://nzbirds.com/Dunnock.html
Chaffinch
Interesting research. http://wwwbio.leidenuniv.nl/~eew/G6/staff/lachlan/lachlan.html
Chaffinches have accents.http://www.uiuc.edu/cnrs/Cnrspresse/en27a3.html
An extraordinary hybrid.http://www.zoo.uib.no/turoy/images/hybrid.htm
Great Tit
Photos of Japanese Great Tits (and many more birds!)
http://www.big.or.jp/~shimpset/enindex.html
Greenfinch
Interesting research:
http://www.zoologi.uu.se/popbio/homepage/Karin-L/Karin's%20Homepage.html
Ever wondered exactly what they were doing with those beaks? http://wwwbio.leidenuniv.nl/~nuijens/abst1.html
Collared Dove
In French:
http://www.sepol.asso.fr/especes/strdec.html
In Dutch:
http://www.geocities.com/ivn_vogels_stad_dorp/Turkse_Tortel_Streptopelia-decaocto.html
A big mystery in Illinois!
http://www.iwu.edu/~mretter/IllinoisPhotosDoves.html
Song Thrush
Interesting example of a county biodiversity action plan. Note
section 3.1: "Little action was taken for this species until
the BTO census work highlighted its decline". If you are a
BTO volunteer, give yourself a pat on the back!
http://www.camcnty.gov.uk/sub/cntryside/biodiv/plans/thrush.html
Problems with these links? Please
inform gbw@bto.org. Thanks.
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