Links

Local Interest

• Beaverhill Bird Observatory
  Banding at Beaverhill Lake - projects, archives, recoveries, map, etc
• Edmonton & Area Land Trust
• Royal Alberta Museum - Ornithology
  Bird eggs, Project Sapsucker, Flycatcher update, etc.
• Clifford E. Lee Nature Sanctuary
  A guide to the 348 acre site 33 km SW of Edmonton
• Wagner Natural Area Society (WNAS)
• BLESS, Big Lake Environment Support Society
  Support Group for the Lake, W of St. Albert
• Wildbird General Store
  Northern Alberta Bird Hotline, optics, books, tapes, video, feeders, seed, gifts, etc.
• John Janzen Nature Centre
• Nature Calgary

General Interest

• NatureServe, a new "online encyclopedia of life" developed by the Association for Biodiversity Information (ABI). NatureServe provides authoritative conservation information in a searchable database for more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada.
• The Birds of North America  
• The Owl Links Page - everyone loves owls, find it all here
• National Audubon Society - everything you want to know, conservation, coffee, cowbirds
• American Birding Association - Birding ethics, listing rules etc.

  

• Alberta Environment- Fish & Wildlife - Watchable Wildlife Viewing Guide, threatened species, forests, etc. also has links on the page to access Alberta Parks
• Environment Canada - traveling? Weather info, satellite images
• Where do you want to go Birding today? - a local site- Birding the world, specializing in Canada very extensive many links
• Virtual Bird - fun and educational. Take a birding break, go visit locations around North America and try out your identifying skiills, no matter what the weather is outside
• Links to Other Links - http://www.naturescape.ab.ca/links.htm; Calgary Links

Specific Topics 

• Bears ... The American Bear Association - Parks Canada - Hinterland's Who's Who / Black Bear - Grizzly Bear - Canadian Bears
• Trees ... Tree Identification - Alberta Trees - Books on the Trees of Alberta - Uses of Trees - Rainforests - Boreal Forest - Alberta's Parkland Forests
• Butterflies ... Links to other butterfly sites - Butterflies and Moths of North America - Butterflies of Canada - Insects of Alberta / Butterflies
• Spiders ... Spiders of Alberta - Spiders of North America
• Orchids ... Orchids of North America - Orchids of Alberta
• Fish ... Identifying Alberta Fish - Bull Trout / A Threatened Species
• Endangered Species ... Alberta - Canada - Hinterland's Who's Who
• Warblers ... Identification Canada
• Insects ... Insects of Alberta - Royal Alberta Museum Insects - University of Alberta Entomology Collection - Insects and Spiders of Alberta by Terry Thormin
• Wildflowers ... Wildflowers of Edmonton

Western Canada

• Lethbridge Naturalists Society
• Inglewood Bird Sanctuary (Calgary)
• Friends of Jasper National Park
• The following societies/clubs may be linked from http://fanweb.ca/about/clubs
• Buffalo Lake Naturalists Club (Stettler)
• Fort McMurray Field Naturalists Society
• Lac La Biche Birding Society
• Peace Parkland Naturalists (Grand Prairie)
• Red Deer River Naturalists
• Society of Grasslands Naturalists (Medicine Hat)
• Vermilion River Naturalist Club
• Bowkan Birders (Exshaw)
• Wagner Natural Area Society

Bird Counts and Surveys

• Breeding Bird Survey - Federation of Alberta Naturalists
• BirdSource: Christmas Bird Counts/ Great Backyard Bird Count/ Project Feederwatch - Audubon and Cornell - What counts are there? How do I participate? View some results in maps form, bird feeding tips. Just choose the count in the corner , click and go
• Bird Studies Canada - Migration monitoring and bird banding stations, Baillee Fund/Birdathon, Important bird Areas, Loons, Owls, Waterbirds, Swallow surveys
• Local Christmas Bird Count Data Results

Conservation Organizations

• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
• Nature Canada (Canadian Nature Federation)
• Canadian Wildlife Federation
• Sierra Club of Canada
• Alberta Wilderness Association

Readings

• Why Wilderness by R. V. Rasmussen