Kenai Birding Festival

Resources: Files and Weblinks

These are some collected resources for your consideration.

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File	Description	File size
Kenai Peninsula Bird Checklist	A local area checklist.	249 Kb

•  Kenai Peninsula Birding Resources
  

  Local birding groups and sponsors.

  • Keen Eye Birders
    KEEN EYE PENINSULA BIRDERS meetings are USUALLY held the second Sunday of each month, please come and join us!!
  • Kenai Cultural and Visitors Center
    More than just an information center, the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center is a 10,000 square foot facility that houses a permanent collection of local historical artifacts, wildlife exhibits, a museum and store, the Saturday Market and a variety of educational programs. The KVCC is open year-round.
  • Kenai Peninsula Wildlife Viewing Trail...
    The Kenai Peninsula Wildlife Viewing Trail Guide is a tool to help you get the most out of your wildlife viewing adventure on The Kenai. It is a collection of 65 viewing sites located throughout the Peninsula. These sites encompass all of the Kenai's major wildlife habitats, and range from roadside platforms to backcountry trails.
  • Kenai Fish & Wildlife
    Kenai National Wildlife Refuge was established to conserve moose, bears, mountain goats, Dall sheep, wolves and other furbearers, salmonoids and other fish, waterfowl and other migratory and nonmigratory birds; to fulfill international treaty obligations of the United States with respect to fish and wildlife and their habitats; to ensure water quality and necessary water quantity within the Refuge; to provide, in a manner consistent with the first two purposes, opportunities for scientific research, interpretation, environmental education, and land management training; and to provide, in a manner compatible with all the aforementioned purposes, opportunities for fish and wildlife-oriented recreation.
  • Audubon Anchorage
    The Anchorage Audubon Society chapter is a volunteer, non-profit organization that is dedicated to the conservation of southcentral Alaska ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future generations. Our dedicated volunteers provide field trips, natural history presentation, newsletters, the bird hotline, education programs for adults and children and support for conservation issues. Natural history presentations are scheduled for the third Thursday of every month from September through May. Our birding and natural history focused field trips are open to the public and are led by local bird experts. We welcome all levels of birders and non-birders on our field trips.
•  Bird References
  

  Resources for identifying and understanding birds: taxonomies, identifying characteristics, life-cycle characteristics, habitats, etc.

  • All About Birds
    All About Birds is created by the staff of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It’s our aim to make this site the Web’s best and most comprehensive resource for North American birds, bird watching, and bird conservation—accessible to everyone for free.
  • WhatBird.com
    My name is Mitchell Waite and I have developed a radical search engine to identify birds of North America that differs from anything on the web. Whatbird.com lets you find your bird with just a few clicks. It's so accurate and fast that the Wild Bird Feeding Institute is using it to help people identify birds for Project Wildbird, their 3-year study on backyard feeding habits. What makes this engine so special is that it uses a parametric step-by-step approach as contrasted with all the other ID engines currently available in the Internet which use an "all at once" approach. In order to find a bird these search engines require you to enter all the ID information and field marks upfront at the same time. This means you are either going to get "zero matches" or a huge number of matches. Our engine gets around this by presenting a visual interface to whatever field mark you select first. Each step narrows the search results to help locate the bird you saw. Try the bird search engine--it currently has over 800 birds in the database, each having a magnificent hand painted illustration, a bird call (the sounds it makes) that you can listen to and extensive species accounts. Here is an example of the Allen's Hummingbird.
  • University of Michigan Animal Diversit...
    Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan
  • Bird Life International
    BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. BirdLife Partners operate in over one hundred countries and territories worldwide.
  • The American Birding Association
    The American Birding Association provides leadership to birders by increasing their knowledge, skills, and enjoyment of birding. We are the only organization in North America that specifically caters to recreational birders. We also contribute to bird and bird habitat conservation through our varied programs.
  • Bird Treatment and Leanring Center
    The Bird Treatment and Learning Center is dedicated to rehabilitating sick, injured or orphaned wild birds and providing avian education programs to the public. Dr. James R. Scott, an Anchorage veterinarian, now retired, founded Bird TLC in 1988. Dr. Scott, along with other Alaskan veterinarians and volunteers, donate their time to treat these birds in need. In addition to medical care, Bird TLC provides a variety of educational programs to increase people's awareness of the wild birds around them.
  • Alaska Bird Observatory
    The Alaska Bird Observatory advances the appreciation, understanding, and conservation of birds and their habitats through research and education.
  • Cornell Lab of Ornithology
    We use science to understand the world, to find new ways to make conservation work, and to involve people who share our passion.
  • Audubon National
    Connecting people with nature, this site features States, Centers & Chapters, Birds & Science, Issues & Action, Education, and News.
  • Audubon Alaska
    Audubon Alaska's mission is to conserve the spectacular natural ecosystems of our state, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit and enjoyment of current and future generations. As an office of the National Audubon Society, we use science to identify conservation priorities and support conservation actions and policies, with an emphasis on public lands and waters.
•  Reports and Checklists
  Organize your own checklist at e-Birds. See bird reports on the web.
  • E-bird: Submit Your Sightings
    E-bird is a real-time, online checklist program, eBird has revolutionized the way that the birding community reports and accesses information about birds. Launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, eBird provides rich data sources for basic information on bird abundance and distribution at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. E-bird is amassing one of the largest and fastest growing biodiversity data resources in existence. For example, in January 2010, participants reported more than 1.5 million bird observations across North America! The observations of each participant join those of others in an international network of eBird users. eBird then shares these observations with a global community of educators, land managers, ornithologists, and conservation biologists.
  • AkBirding
    AK Birding is for discussion of Alaska birding and wild birds only.This list is statewide in scope.
  • Birding on the Net: Alaska Sightings
    Web record of email list-serve stream.