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Ornithology Databases
- Birds of the World This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive reference covering the life histories of the world's birds, from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the American Ornithologist's Union. The West Chester University community has access to the full subscription of this resource.
Websites about Birds
- All About BirdsAn online bird guide, birding tips, and links to bird cams from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.
- BIRDNETAll about ornithology, the scientific study of birds; presented by the Ornithological Council.
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Macaulay LibraryWorld's largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings.
- Feather Atlas - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics LaboratoryThis website is designed to assist feather identification by providing high-resolution scans of flight feathers of major groups of North American birds.
- Internet Bird CollectionOnline video library of the world's birds sponsored by the Handbook of the Birds of the World.
- Life Histories of Familiar North American BirdsThis is a web browser-based electronic book collection of Life Histories of North American Birds, selected from the hundreds of species biographies assembled and written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and his collaborators and published in a twenty-one volume series between 1919 and 1968 by the United States Government Printing Office.
- Pennsylvania Society for OrnithologyFounded in 1990 to foster the study and appreciation of the birds of Pennsylvania and to promote the conservation of birds and their habitat.
- SORASearchable Ornithological Research Archive.
