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Guide To Bird-Watching From Your Window: Thanks to Cindy Powell and her Junior Scouts for suggesting this page with useful links to birding resources for beginning and expert birders alike!


Birds-of-Paradise Project Trailer: The Birds-of-Paradise Project reveals the astounding beauty of 39 of the most exquisitely specialized animals on earth. After 8 years and 18 expeditions to New Guinea and Australia, Cornell Lab scientist Ed Scholes and National Geographic photojournalist Tim Laman succeeded in capturing images of all 39 species in the bird-of-paradise family for the first time ever. This trailer gives a sense of their monumental undertaking and the spectacular footage that resulted.


The arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) makes an incredible migration each year. These small birds travel distances of more than 50,000 miles, from pole to pole, crossing through temperate and tropical regions along the way.  YouTube video.


The Long-tailed Duck has one of the most distinctive vocalizations of any tundra nesting bird. The Lab’s Charles Eldermire describes the calls of this loud and garrulous species.

YouTube video from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology


Great fishing technique!

YouTube Video of a Green Heron Fishing


Beginner’s Guide to Bird Watching

A good resource for people new to birding.  Many useful links.

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