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We monitor the common birds of Sweden since 30 years. Birds are counted in summer and winter at hundreds of different sites. Since the counts are carried out in the same way each year, we can detect which species that increase or decrease in numbers. The project is carried out at the Department of Ecology, Lund University, as a part of a national environmental monitoring project run by The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The bird counts are mainly carried out by volunteers, many of them members of the Swedish Ornithological Society. -- Vi övervakar förändringar i de svenska fågelbeståndens storlek. Sedan 36 år räknas antalet fåglar på flera hundra lokaler runt om i Sverige, både sommar och vinter. Då räkningarna utförs på samma sätt varje år kan jämförelser göras mellan åren om hur antalet fåglar i Sverige ökar eller minskar. Gå med i Nattfågel-taxeringen! Projektet drivs av Ekologiska Institutionen, Lunds Universitet, som en del i Naturvårdsverkets nationella miljöövervakningsprogram Vill du vara med? Huvuddelen av fågelräkningarna utförs av frivilliga, av vilka de flesta är medlemmar i Sveriges Ornitologiska Förening Projektet är svensk representant i det europeiska nätverket för fågelövervakning

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 100 years of citizen science involvement. It is an early-winter bird census, where thousands of volunteers across the US, Canada and many countries in the Western Hemisphere, go out over a 24 hour period to count birds.

The BBS is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Centerand Environment Canada's Canadian Wildlife Service to monitor the status and trends of North American bird populations. Following a rigorous protocol, BBS data are collected by thousands of dedicated participants along thousands of randomly established roadside routes throughout the continent. Professional BBS coordinators and data managers work closely with researchers and statisticians to compile and deliver these population data and population trend analyses on more than 400 bird species, for use by conservation managers, scientists, and the general public.

EURING is the co-ordinating organisation for European bird-ringing schemes. It aims to promote and encourage: Scientific and administrative co-operation between national ringing schemes Development and maintenance of high standards in bird ringing Scientific studies of birds, in particular those based on marked individuals The use of data from bird ringing for the management and conservation of birds

The SORA project (http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora) is an open access electronic journal archive and is the product of a collaboration between the American Ornithologists Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Association of Field Ornithologists, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the University of New Mexico libraries and IT department. This archive provides access to an extensive Ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of Ornithology in North America over the last 120 years. The content of this site includes the following titles: The Auk (1884-1999), The Condor (1899-2000), The Journal of Field Ornithology (1930-1999), The North American Bird Bander (1976-2000), Pacific Coast Avifauna (1900-1974), Studies in Avian Biology (1978-1999), and The Wilson Bulletin (1889-1999). Also available with browse-only capability is Ornithologia Neotropical; we hope to be able to index this journal soon, and include searching across its contents. We hope to be able to expand the content available as more Societies and journals join. The content is available in searchable and browseable formats and documents can be downloaded as pdf or djvu files. Djvu files rely on an “acrobat” type browser plug-in (www.lizardtech.com) for viewing and are approximately 1/4 the size of pdf files for faster downloads. Web browsers must have the ability to read java script (make sure it is turned on). The site is still under development and additional features and journals (JFO browse feature and NABB for example) will be added as the materials become available and the programming is completed. This site is still undergoing some modification and problems (broken/bad links, etc.) can be reported to the SORA Coordinator, Blair Wolf, through the site link. He will not be providing browser support, but is interested in functional issues/ideas relating to the site. The SORA project is an outgrowth of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s efforts to produce an electronic archive of The Condor. The interest and participation of the other North American Ornithological societies has allowed for the creation of SORA. The project was financed solely by the individual societies, and the University of New Mexico Centennial Science Library and IT department invested the time and resources to develop the databases and website. Princeton Imaging scanned the journals, produced the supporting SGML and has provided extensive support towards getting the content online. Dana Gardner kindly painted the attractive banner and Sora for the web page.

The purpose of this website is to facilitate the retrieval of bibliographic references of scientific work devoted to the birds of mainland France and published during the period 1945 to 1990. It complements the three books published in 1992 (Volume 1 for the period 1945 to 1965), 1996 (Volume 2 for the period 1966 to 1980) and 2008 (Volume 3 for the period 1981 to 1990).These works are presented in the " Published works ". They are still available. 12 069 articles or notes, 187 books or articles in a book and 118 theses have been published during the period 1945 to 1990 on the birds of France. Content analysis of 12 374 publications has generated a database of nearly 400,000 entries ! All this information is accessible from this site. It allows searching of references of publications from a variety of key inputs: - author, - place, - year - species - magazine - issue but also and especially to cross-index (a species in a department or a author and a magazine, etc.).. Moreover, it is also possible to read the contents of each publication referenced: list of species mentioned, places of observations and themes. The order used in these lists is the same as in the documents "species", "places" and "themes". Finally, for more than 1700 references, a summary completes the taxonomic information, geographic and thematic. -- L'objectif de ce site internet est de faciliter la recherche des références bibliographiques des travaux scientifiques consacrés aux oiseaux de France métropolitaine et publiés au cours de la période 1945 - 1990. Il complète les trois ouvrages publiés en 1992 (tome 1 pour la période 1945 - 1965), en 1996 (tome 2 pour la période 1966 - 1980) et 2008 (tome 3 pour la période 1981 - 1990). Ces ouvrages sont présentés dans le document « Ouvrages publiés ». Ils sont encore disponibles. 12 069 articles ou notes, 187 ouvrages ou articles dans un ouvrage et 118 thèses ont été publiés au cours de la période 1945 - 1990 sur les oiseaux de France métropolitaine. L'analyse du contenu de ces 12 374 publications a permis de générer une base de données de près de 400 000 entrées ! Toutes ces informations sont accessibles à partir de ce site. Il permet la recherche des références des publications à partir de différentes clefs d'entrées : - auteur, - lieu, - année, - espèce - revue, - thème mais aussi et surtout de croiser les index (une espèce dans un département, ou un auteur et une revue, etc.). Par ailleurs, il est aussi possible de prendre connaissance du contenu de chaque publication référencée : liste des espèces mentionnées, des lieux d'observations et des thèmes abordés. L'ordre utilisé dans ces listes est le même que dans les documents « espèces », « lieux » et « thèmes ». Enfin, pour plus de 1 700 références, un résumé vient compléter les informations taxonomiques, géographiques et thématiques.

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MU’s avian ecology lab includes students and faculty members from both the Division of Biological Sciences and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences at the University of Missouri. Students are typically funded through research assistantships, teaching assistantships, or fellowships and work on a diversity of projects throughout the Americas. Current and recent research field sites include: Mark Twain National Forest – Missouri Mississippi valley bottomland hardwood forests – Missouri Oak-Juniper woodlands – Central Texas Guanica Forest Reserve – Puerto Rico El Cielo Biosphere Reserve - Mexico Manu National Park – Peru Tuamotu Atoll – French Polynesia Coastal longleaf pine – Florida Tropical limestone forest – Guam Members of the lab are using experimental, observational, and theoretical approaches to answer questions about the ecology and conservation of avian species. Some current projects: winter ecology and competitive interactions between migrants and residents altitudinal migration in the tropics landscape effects on nest predation and nest predators movement and demography in Pacific island kingfishers dispersal in cooperatively breeding woodpeckers influence of landscape resources on sociality Please visit faculty and student webpages for more detailed descriptions of these and other projects.

List of and links to Audubon Centers and Sanctuaries in the United States.

Ontario, Canada

Through this Center, we promote conservation of bustards and falcons. We also aim to reconcile the tradition of Arab falconry with a sustainable use of resources throughout the bustards’ and falcons' range. Our aim is to save falcons, bustards and other bird species from extinction. We are doing this through research, breeding houbara in captivity, forming international partnerships, habitat conservation and co-operation with falconers. The National Avian Research Centre is located in Sweihan, Al Ain.

Under the guidance of Dr. James T. Harvey, graduate students in the MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab study marine and estuarine birds, marine mammals, and sea turtles.

The Charles Darwin Foundation operates the Charles Darwin Research Station in Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos.

The Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics (BLB) is a research and service unit of the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University. It is located in the OSU Museum of Biological Diversity. The BLB houses one of the largest collections of recorded animal sounds in the world. Founded by the late Dr. Donald Borror, Professor of Entomology and Zoology at The Ohio State University, the collection contains over 34,000 recordings of over 1500 species of animals.

A. P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI) is a small institute connected to the University of Jos (UNIJOS), Nigeria. The institute aims to educate students in Conservation Biology, and to be a centre of excellence for Ornithology in West Africa. Currently we are giving courses on master’s level in Conservation Biology, and tailored courses for other groups. PhD students from St. Andrews University, UK, are affiliated to the institute, conducting research on various aspects in Conservation Biology, but with a special focus on birds in altered habitats in the savannah zones of Nigeria.

In this section of Birding.com you will find a comprehensive list of North American and international centers of ornithological research, including museums, universities, collections, professional societies, laboratories, and personal pages.

The Ornithology group in the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas conducts research and provides undergraduate and graduate education on the birds of the world. Research topics include the species limits and species diversity, evolution, geography, genetics and genomics, morphology, conservation, ecology, and behavior. This work is greatly enhanced by extensive research collections of world birds, numbering more than 107,000 specimens, many of which are recently collected as part of the group's global bird sampling program. The data associated with all Ornithology specimens are freely available via http://vertnet.org.

The Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology (affectionately known as the Fitztitute) is located at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where it is housed within the Zoology Department. Situated at the tip of Africa, the Fitztitute is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the vast untapped biological resources of the continent. Members of the department are committed to developing a greater understanding of these, through the training of scientists and the pursuit of primary research, from evolutionary ecology to conservation biology. The Institute is also home to the Niven Library, which holds what is probably Africa's most comprehensive Ornithology collection and reprints of the Institute's vast publication record.

The Edward Grey Institute is part of the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Founded in 1937, it conducts research into the behaviour, ecology, evolution and conservation of birds, with a strong emphasis on understanding organisms in their natural environments. Read more on the history of the EGI. The EGI is particularly well known for its long-term population studies of birds, and as one of the birthplaces of behavioural ecology. These research themes are as strong as ever, and have recently been supplemented by vigorous programmes studying reproductive strategies in birds, speciation in Neotropical passerines, and the evolutionary ecology of avian malaria. For a quick overview of what we do, see this poster.

Das Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie (MPIO) nahm 2004 seine Arbeit auf. Es hat seinen Hauptsitz in dem zur Gemeinde Pöcking in Oberbayern gehörenden Ort Seewiesen. Mit der Vogelwarte Radolfzell ist ein Teilinstitut des MPIO in Radolfzell am Bodensee angesiedelt. Das Institut besteht aus drei Abteilungen und mehreren selbstständigen Forschergruppen, die sich mit verschiedenen ornithologischen Fragestellungen befassen und dabei zahlreiche biologische Disziplinen zusammenführen. Manfred Gahr und Bart Kempenaers forschen mit ihren Abteilungen in Seewiesen. Martin Wikelski ist Direktor der dritten Abteilung in Radolfzell und Lehrstuhlinhaber an der Universität Konstanz. Am gesamten Institut arbeiten und forschen über 200 Mitarbeiter. Das MPIO unterhält enge Kooperationen zu einer Reihe von internationalen Instituten mit vergleichbaren Forschungsschwerpunkten. -- The Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (MPIO) was founded in 2004. The headquarter is located in Seewiesen in Upper Bavaria. The other part of the institute is located in Radolfzell at Lake Constance. The institute has three departments and several independent research groups that investigate different ornithological topics by using an interdisciplinary approach. Manfred Gahr and Bart Kempenaers conduct their research in Seewiesen. Martin Wikelski is director of the third department in Radolfzell (at Lake Constance) and also holds a professorship at the University of Konstanz. The MPIO has over 200 employees and maintains close cooperation with a number of international institutions with shared research focus.