A wise owl sat in an oak.
The more he saw, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we be like that old bird?
Birdwatching in the Netherlands
- Waarneming.nl, field observations
- Trektellen.nl, migration counts
- Dutchbirding.nl, rare bird alerts
Waarneming.nl
- Waarneming.nl, field observations
- My observations
- My pictures
- All observations
- All pictures
- Show areas
- KNNV Twenthe
Birdwatching in the World
Bird Observatories & Migration
- Trektellen.nl, Dutch Observation Stations
- Falsterbo Bird Observatory
- Falsterbo migration counts (today, last week, etc...)
- Falsterbo, totals of this season
Birding Forums
Bird Identification
- Identification of Dutch Birds
- Vogelvisie, informatie over 250 Nederlandse vogelsoorten
- Identification of North-American Birds
- Avibase, the world bird database
Ornithology
- Sovon, Dutch Center for Field Ornithology
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Bird Taxonomy for Birders, Rolf de By's site
- Radar Ornithology Laboratory at Clemson University, CUROL
- Birds, Nation Master Encyclopedia
- Bird Studies Canada
- Redpoll Taxonomy / Barmsijs Taxonomie
- Redpoll Taxonomy / Barmsijs Taxonomie
- Skull Site
- Feathers.tk
Bird Pictures
- BirdPix.nl
- BirdShooting.nl
- NaturePix.nl
- Avifauna Groningen Media Galerij
- BirdPerch.com
- WildPicture.com
Bird Videos
Bird Sounds
- Identification of Dutch Birds
- European Bird Songs
- Bird Songs, New York State
- Bird Sound Resources of American Birds
- Online resources
- Bird identification and bird sounds
- North American Bird Sounds
- Avisoft Bioacoustics
- Macaulay Library, collection of 160,000 animal sounds
Bird Protection
- Bird Protection Netherlands
- BirdLife International
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK
- Maps of bird areas in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany
Dutch Birding Groups / Vogelwerkgroepen
- Twentse Vogelwerkgroep
- KNNV Twenthe
- Vogelwerkgroep Losser
- Vogels in en om Ootmarsum
- Vogelwerkgroep Eibergen
- Vogelwerkgroep Neede
- The SplatZone, birding Overijssel and beyond...
- Lauwersmeer
- Avifauna Groningen
Rare Bird Alerts
- Dutchbirding, rare bird alerts, Netherlands
- BirdCall.de, rare bird alerts, Germany
- EuroTwitch, rare bird alert, Europe
- Rare Birds Spain
Birding Optics
- Binoculars Buying Guide at Optics4Birding
- Testrapporten kijkers
- Testrapporten telescopen
- Pentax PF 80 ED Spotting Scope
- Scope Chart 2008
- The Binocular Site
Bird News
- Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Poisonous Birds, the Hooded Pitohui
- Pitohui Birds
- It takes a thief to know a thief
- Ultra-Fast Camera Captures How Hummingbirds Hover
Birding Software
- J-Bird, software for bird lists
- Download J-Bird
- eubirdb, EU bird ring DB
- Vogelaar 2.50, database voor de vogelaar
Birding Space & Time
- Gebiedsnamen in Nederland, PLUS coordinaten!!!
- Conversion Dutch RD coordinates - km blocks
- Sunrise / Sunset calculator
- Sunrise / Sunset table
Birding Books
- Vögel in der Grafschaft Bentheim, Paul Knolle et al.
- Vogels van Nederland, Hermann Schlegel
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive, SORA
Miscellaneous links
- Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA) e.V.
- Fat Birder, many, many birding resources. Check it out!!
- Birding Forums
- Bird name translation of European birds
- Euring, bird ringing Europe
- Colour Ring
- vogelaar.pagina.nl, starting page for Dutch birders
- eBird.org, observations in North America
- Breeding Birds in Limburg, NL
- The meaning of the Dutch word vogelen