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Links to Other Banding Sites

Here are some sites that include information about bird banding. These sites are from other banding schemes, researchers using banding data on their pages, and groups that use banding as part of their research. This list is not comprehensive but is a starting point for learning about bird banding on the world wide web. Please send suggestions for additions to bblweb@patuxent.usgs.gov

Go to Banding Organizations and Bird Observatories (USA and Canada)

BIRDNET'S Bird Observatories in the USA and Canada

Sam Sumida's Bird Banding Discussion Forums

All banders are encouraged to participate in the BIRDBAND listserver. This email list includes banders and ringers from around the world, and is centered on exchange of ideas among banders. About the BIRDBAND Listserver

Featured Links

• Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA)
• Merseyside Ringing Group (UK)
• Birdlife Northern Gauteng/ Gauteng-Noord Bird Ringing Group (South Africa)
• Columbia Bird Research
• Powdermill Nature Reserve
• Project Owlnet
• La Mucuy Bird Observatory

Bird Banding and Ringing at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

• Atlantic Flyway Seaduck Study
• Black Ducks in the Atlantic Flyway (Eastern USA and Canada)
• Ecology of Nesting Black Ducks in the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland and Virginia, USA)
• Rancho Sandoval Banding Project (Mexico)
• Sora Rail Migration Studies at Jug Bay, Maryland (USA)
• The Falkner Island Tern Project (Connecticut, USA)
• Wading Birds in Coastal Virginia (USA)

Bird Banding and Ringing in North America

• The Bird Banding and Radio Telemetry Program at the Alaska Biological Science Center
• Bird Banding in Canada
• Bird Studies Canada
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology (North America)
• Driftwood Wildlife Association (Texas, USA)
• Ducks Unlimited Mallard Trax (Great Lakes, USA)
• Environmental Studies at Airlie (Virginia)
• Featherbed Lane Banding Station (New Jersey)
• Fort Riley MAPS station (Kansas) ( see A day at the Banding Station )
• Geese in Space (Greenland, Eastern North America)
• Great Gull Island (New York, USA)
• Hawk Mountain Sanctuary (Pennsylvania, USA)
• Journey North (North America)
• Michigan HummerNet (Great Lakes) 
• Migratory Bird Management Office, US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Monitoring Avian Productiviy and Survivorship (North America) (MAPS); MAPS Bander Training Site
• Ohio Tri-State Hummingbird Study (USA)
• Operation Crane Watch (North America and Russia)
• Operation RubyThroat (Eastern USA)
• San Pedro River Banding (Arizona)
• The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (California, USA)
• Satellite Tracking Threatened Species (North America)
• Satellite Tracking Wood Stork (Southeastern USA)
• Shaw Woods Avian Monitoring Program
• Shorebirds: Winging Between Hemispheres
• Sister Schools Program (Shorebirds, North America)
• USFWS Clemson Field Office Red-cockaded Woodpecker Recovery
• Waterfowl Conservation Statewide Waterfowl Program (see Surf Scoter and Sandhill Crane Telemetry Pages)
• Wilson Creek MAPS Station (Wisconsin)

Bird Banding and Ringing around the World

• Akerøya Bird Observatory (Norway)
• The Avian Demographic Unit, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
• Australia Bird and Bat Ringing
• Bird Banders of North East New South Wales
• Bird Ringing in Sweden
• British Trust for Ornithology
• Catalan Ringing Group, Grup Català d`Anellament,Catalan Ringing Group, Spain
• CEMAVE-The Brazilian Bird Banding Program
• Chokpak Ornithological Station (Kazakhstan)
• Copenhagen Bird Ringing Centre (Denmark)
• EURING The European Union for Bird Ringing
• European Colour-ring Birding
• Falsterbo Bird Ringing Station (Sweden), their excellent Bird Observatories & Ringing page
• Birdlife Northern Gauteng/ Gauteng-Noord Bird Ringing Group (South Africa)
• Merseyside Ringing Group (UK)
• Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations Oiseaux (en français)
• Ring-reading pages of Risto Juvaste (Finland)
• SAFRING The South African Bird Ringing Unit
• Takern Field Station (Sweden)
• The Treasure Oil Spill (with tracking of marked birds) (South Africa)

Other Ornithological Sites

• Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA)
• BIRDNET The Ornithological Information Source
• Birdsource
• Ornithological Journals
• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center

Other Bird-oriented Web Sites at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

• Breeding Bird Survey Operations
• Breeding Bird Survey Analysis
• Partners in Flight
• Migratory Bird Research
• Bird Identification Info-tips
• Bird Population Studies