Bird Blogs of Britain and Ireland

What follows is a list of active and inactive bird blogs of Britain and Ireland that are personally known to me. There are certainly many others that I have not yet discovered, with more being created daily. My goal is to make this list as comprehensive as possible. I plan to update the list frequently, so if you know of other bird blogs of Britain or Ireland (or have one yourself) that should be included here, please leave a comment.

Active:

A Bird in the Scope (Staffordshire)

A Brit Abroad (UK)

A Dorset Diary (Dorset)

A Tale of 2 Halves (UK)

A Wirral Birder’s Blog (Cheshire)

A&T Birding (Cornwall)

A. W. Birder: Always on the Lookout for Fine Birds (North Yorkshire)

Alexandra Park Birding Group (London)

Alrewas Birder (Staffordshire)

Another Place (Merseyside)

Antic's of a TSP Birder!!

Archie’s British Birding Blogz (Warwickshire)

Argy Bargy Birding

Ashley’s Birding Blog (Britain)

Avon BTO (Avon)

Back in Birdland (Bedfordshire)

Barton and Beyond (Hampshire)

Bedsbirds Images Blog (Bedfordshire)

Beg Bits (Scotland)

Belvide Birding (Staffordshire)

Bill Aspin’s Birding Blog 2 (Lancashire)

Bill's Birding (Surrey)

Binocularface.com (UK)

Biodiversity and Ornithology in Ireland (Tipperary)

Bird Migration Diary (UK)

Bird North East (NE England)

Bird Photos by Andy Whitney (Bedfordshire)

Bird Snapping (South Gloucestershire)

Bird Watching Magazine Blog (Britain)

BirdBlog (Lancashire / Merseyside)

Birdbrain (West Yorkshire)

Birders in Boxers (Glamorgonshire, Wales)

BirdGuides Blog (UK)

Birding Aldcliffe (North Lancashire)

Birding Amersham (Buckinghamshire)

Birding and Stuff (Kent)

Birding Dad (Cambridgeshire)

Birding Notebook (London)

Birding on Wheels (Ireland)

Birding Sometimes (Northumberland)

Birding Tring Reservoirs (Buckinghamshire)

Birding With the Old Grouse (Surrey)

Birds and Nature in the Forest of Dean (Gloucester)

Birds and Wildlife of the North Kent Marshes (Kent)

Birds, Birding, and Me (Devon)

Birds of Shustoke Reservoir (Warwickshire)

Birdwatching in the London Borough of Redbridge

Bitter Bonxie (Shetland)

Bluebirder (Yorkshire)

Blurred Birding (West Midlands)

Blyth Birder (Northumbria)

Bob the Birder (Warwickshire)

Bob's Birding Blog (Merseyside)

Bogbumper (Cambridgeshire)

Borders' Birds (Scottish Borders)

BOU News (UK)

Boulmer Birder (Northumberland)

Boutham Mere (Lincolnshire)

Brightside Birding (West Midlands)

Buckinghamshire Birding (Buckinghamshire)

Bucktonbirder (Bedfordshire)

Calderdale Birds (West Yorkshire)

Calvert Birding (Buckinghamshire)

Cardiff Bird Club (Wales)

Castle Birding (Northumberland)

Ceredigion Birds (Ceredigion)

Chris Gibbons—Gulls and Birds (Scotland)

Chris’s Birding Blog (Lincolnshire)

City Birding (Tyne and Wear)

CLOACA: Birding from the Back Door (London)

Connor's Birding Site (Norfolk)

Cork Birding (County Cork, Ireland)

Cornwall Birding (Cornwall)

Counting Coots (London)

Craigsukbirdphotos (UK)

Crammy Birder (Northumberland)

Dan's Wildlife Blog (Bedfordshire)

Dave’s Birding Blog (Lancashire)

Dave's Diary (Britain)

David's Birding Diary (Bedfordshire)

Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project - 2009 (Derbyshire)

Devil Birder's Diary (Surrey)

Devon Occasional (Devon)

Diary of an Oxford Birder (Oxfordshire)

Disabled Birder of Halling (Kent)

Druridge Pools – Ipin’s Wildlife Blog (Northumberland)

Du Rose's Digest (Britain)

Dude Birding (UK)

Dusty Bins (Britain)

Eagle's Eye on Life

East Yorkshire Birding with Flowers (Yorkshire)

ebirder (Yorkshire)

Eye to the Telescope (Britain)

Fat Paul Scholes (NE Scotland)

Fleetwood Birder (Lancashire)

Folkestone & Hythe Birds (Kent)

Fraser's Birding Blog (London & Scotland)

From Tyne to Tweed (Northumberland)

Galley Head Birding (County Cork, Ireland)

George Bristow's Secret Freezer (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Green Withens Birding (Yorkshire)

Green Wood Ringer (Bedfordshire)

Gulls on Film (UK)

Gwent Birding (Gwent, Wales)

Hampshire Diary (Hampshire)

HampshireBirder's Blog (Hampshire)

Happisburgh Parish ~ A Bird Diary 2008 (Norfolk)

Hertfordshire Birding (Hertfordshire)

Hertfordshire BTO Regional News (Hertfordshire)

Heysham Bird Observatory (Lancashire)

Highs and Lows of Birding (Kent)

Hillbre Bird Observatory (Merseyside)

In Search of Birds (Isle of Wight)

Ivel Ringing Group (Bedfordshire)

JH Birding (Lincolnshire)

Joe’s Andover Birding (Hampshire)

Joe's Birding Blog (Devon)

Josh's Blog (Lincolnshire)

JR and Sue (Cornwall)

Kent Birding (Kent)

Kirkby Gravel Pits (Lincolnshire)

Listening to Birds (Aberdeen, Scotland)

Little Brown Job (Yorkshire)

Little Hadham Birding (Hertfordshire)

Local Birding for Local People (Staffordshire)

Loch Garten Osprey Diary (Highland)

Loxia Fantastica! (UK)

Mara and Brèagha—Mull Eagles (Argyll and Bute)

Marston Vale Millenium Country Park Birds (Bedfordshire)

Masked Shrike (UK)

Max's Birding Diary (West Midlands)

Menzie Birding (Merseyside)

Menzie Ringing (Merseyside)

Midland Birder (West Midlands)

Mike Randall Bird Photography (UK)

Mike Watson's Diary (East Lancashire)

Mote Park—A Wildlife Patchwork (Kent)

My Birding Diary@Ken Hall Photography (NE Scotland)

Nathalie (Fulham)

New Hythe Wildlife Blog (Kent)

Newton Stringer (Leicester)

Nigel Blake Nature Photographer (Bedfordshire)

North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory (Orkney)

Northowram Wildlife and Beyond (West Yorkshire)

Northumbrian Birding (Northumberland)

Not Quite Scilly (Devon)

On the Bird Trail (Nottinghamshire)

One Man and His Pond (Warwickshire)

Ornithological Idiocy (York)

Otmoor Birding (Oxfordshire)

Paul’s Birding Diary (Gloucestershire)

Pembrokeshire Bird Group (Pembrokeshire)

Pembrokeshire Bird Surveys (Pembrokeshire)

Pembrokeshire Birds (Pembrokeshire)

Peregrine's Bird Blog (County Down, Northern Ireland)

Peterborough Bird Club Gallery (Peterborough)

Pete’s Birding Blog (West Midlands)

Pewit (North Lincolnshire)

Phil Hassell's Nature Pics (Hertfordshire)

Pittswood Birds (Kent)

Photographic Diary (Britain)

Pods World (Cheshire)

Port Meadow Birding (Oxfordshire)

Priory Country Park (Bedfordshire)

Punkbirder Blog

Race Birding (North Yorkshire)

Radnor Bird Blog (Radnorshire)

Ray Roche's Birding Diary (Bedfordshire)

Rediscovering Birding (Oxfordshire)

Regent's Park Birds (London)

Richard Pegler (Leicestershire)

Ribble to Amazon! (Lancashire)

Richard Ford Birding (South Gloucestershire)

Rob Fray’s Shetland Birding Blog (Shetland, Scotland)

Rob Laughton's Bird Photography (Bristol)

Roberts Birding (Norfolk)

Seeswood Pool (Warwickshire)

Self Found Birding (UK)

Shetland Exposure and Southern Exposure (UK)

Simon and Karen Spavin (Lincolnshire)

Slapton Bird Observatory Ringing Group (Devon)

Soar Valley Birding (Leicester)

ST (Northumberland)

St Gothian Sands NR (Cornwall)

St Margaret's at Cliffe Photo Diary (Kent)

Steve Blaine Presents "Bird Porn" (Bedfordshire)

Steve Lane’s Birds (Kent)

Steve the Birder’s Blog (Hampshire)

Steve's Birding (Merseyside)

Stithians-birding (Cornwall)

Stuck in a Rutt Birding (Suffolk)

Swopticsphoto (Cornwall)

Tales of a Norfolk Lister (Norfolk)

Tame Valley Birding (West Midlands)

Telbirding (North Yorkshire)

Terry's Birding Diary (Devon)

The Acorn Trail (UK)

The Bald Birder (Kent)

The BedsBirds Images Blog (Bedfordshire)

The Bird Ringer (UK)

The Blue Chaffinch (Britain)

The Cotswold Water Park (Gloucestershire / Wiltshire)

The Drunkbirders (Leicestershire)

The Early Birder (Surrey)

The Farne Islands Blog (Northumberland)

The Fenlandwalker Birding and Countryside Blog (East Anglia)

The Hornet's Nest (Warwickshire)

The Leicester Llama (Leicestershire)

The Lizard Naturally (Cornwall)

The Magpie's Hoard

The Urban Birder (UK)

The Wandering Birder (Somerset)

The Wandering Tattler (Yorkshire)

The Young Birder (Kent)

Three Amigos Birding (UK)

Three Counties Birding (Britain)

Tom McKinney’s Birding Diary 2008 (UK)

Training to Ring Birds (Britain)

UK 400 Club Rare Bird Alert

Visible Migration (West Yorkshire)

Walking the Dog (Durham)

Walney Bird Observatory (Cumbria)

Wallsend Birder (Tyne and Wear)

Warwickshire Birding (Warwickshire)

Weedon's World of Nature (UK)

Weekend Birder (Gwent, Wales)

Weston Birds (Hertfordshire)

What's He Up to Now! (UK)

Whitacre Heath (Britain)

Whitby Birding (North Yorkshire)

Wildlife Aylemerton (North Norfolk)

Wildlife Photographic Journal (Wirral)

Will's Adlib Blog (Peterborough)

Worcestershire Source (Worcestershire)

Wright's Wanderings (UK)

York BTO Regional News (Yorkshire)

Yorkshire Birders (Yorkshire)

Young Birders (Britain)

Inactive (i.e., no blog-postings in more than a year):

Aurora Borealis (Britain)

Birding at The Lodge (Bedfordshire)

Birding East Lothian (East Lothian, Scotland)

Birding Trip Reports (Worcestershire)

Dartford Waffler - UK (Britain)

Fair Isle – Birds and Birding (Scotland)

Hallow Birding (Worcestershire)

JD's Birding Escapades (London / East Anglia)

More Antics of TSB!!" (Shropshire)

Non Motorized Birding Year List (Norfolk)

Ornitolog-Lyubityel (UK)

Parian in Origin (Ireland)

Sparky's Birds (NE Scotland)

The Not Very Big Year (Britain)

The Wandering Birders (UK)

Tom McKinney's 2006 Birding Diary (UK)

Tom McKinney's 2005 Diary (UK)

Tom McKinney's Birding Diary 2007 (UK)

Tristan's Birding Blog (UK)

Venus Pool Year List (Shropshire)

Last revised: 4/15/09.

North American Bird Blogs

What follows is a list of active and inactive North American (Canada to Panama) bird blogs that are personally known to me. There are certainly many others that I have not yet discovered, with more being created daily. My goal is to make this list as comprehensive as possible. I plan to update the list frequently, so if you know of other North American bird blogs (or have one yourself) that should be included here, please leave a comment.

Active:

200 Birds (UT)

600 Birds (WI)

2008 Colorado Big Green Year (CO)

10,000 Birds (NY)

A Charm of Finches (TX)

A DC Birding Blog (DC)

A Spattering (PA)

A Year of Birds on Stony Lake (ON)

Adventure Birding (AZ)

Adventures of Bird Girl (MD)

Afield in Oklahoma (OK)

AGBirder (CT)

Aimophila Adventures (AZ)

AKA Bird Nerd (WA)

Alan Contreras Birds (OR)

Alan Murphy Photography (TX)

Alice the Owl News (MN)

Ali's Birding Journal (NC)

Alis Volat Propiis (CA)

Angela's Birding Blog (ON)

Antshrike's Bird Blog (TX)

Antwren (CO)

Apartment Biology (OR)

Arctic Refuge Project News—Shorebird Conservation (MA)

Arkansas Birding (AR)

Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

As the Mind Wanders (TX)

Ask the Birds and They Will Tell You (SD)

At the Bird Feeder (MB)

At the Water (MN)

Audubon Birdscapes (PA)

Avian Tendencies (MI)

Avimor Birding Blog (ID)

Backyard Birder (Dave in PA)

Backyard Birder (Dorothy in TX)

Backyard Birds Utah (UT)

Badbirdz - Reloaded (FL)

Bay Area Bird Blog (CA)

Beakspeak (TX)

Beaverton Bird Blog (OR)

Beginning to bird (PA)

Behind the Bins (NY)

Bell Tower Birding (MI)

Best Bets for Birding (OH)

Betsy's Bird Journal (VA)

Big Country Audubon Society Blog (TX)

Big Fat Birder (TN)

Bike-by Birding (CA)

Bill of the Birds (OH)

Biological Ramblings (NY)

Bird Advocates

Bird Banding in Saskatchewan (SK)

Bird brained stories!

Bird Blog (NF)

Bird Blog - River Legacy Parks (TX)

Bird Brio (ID)

Bird by bird (CA)

Bird Diva Blog (NY)

Bird Girl's Birding Adventures (OH)

Bird Names

Bird Nut's Blog (NM)

Bird Photos (OH)

bird QUIZ (NY)

Bird Sense: A Birding Blog (VA)

Bird the Bend (TX)

Bird Traveling (AR)

Bird Treatment and Learning Center (AK)

Bird Watch (BC)

Bird Watching Binoculars

Bird Watching Blog (NY)

Bird Watching Guatemala Photoblog (Guatemala)

BirdBlog (FL)

BirdBreath Blog (CA)

Birdchick Blog (MN)

Birdernaturalist (AZ)

Birder’s Lounge (TX)

Birder's World Field of View

Birders on the Border (AZ)

BirdFellow (OR)

Birdfreak: The Bird Conservation Blog (IL)

Birding (NY)

Birding (TX)

Birding Across the World

Birding and Mountain Biking (FL)

Birding and Other Chatter (AK)

Birding Berrien and Beyond (MI)

Birding Business News

Birding Bytes

Birding Depot’s Bird Feeder (CA)

Birding Dude (NY)

Birding in Canada (MB)

Birding in Chico (CA)

Birding in Florida (FL)

Birding in Maine (ME)

Birding in Michigan (MI)

Birding in New Jersey (NJ)

Birding in Pátzcuaro and Michoacán, Mexico (TX)

Birding in Saulte Ste. Marie (ON)

Birding is NOT a crime!!!!

Birding Life (NY)

Birding Life Photography (ON)

Birding Newfoundland with Dave Brown (NF)

Birding News and Features @ eBird

Birding News, Sightings, and More

Birding North Central Massachusetts...and Beyond (MA)

Birding Notes (GA)

Birding on Broadmeade (TX)

Birding Sonoma County (CA)

Birding the Toledo Area and Beyond (OH)

Birding to the EDG@Nikon

Birding to the End (NY)

Birding Travel

Birding With Kenn and Kim (OH)

Birding With Ray and Anne

Birding With Tucker (IA)

Birding!—A Growing Obsession! (IN)

Birding/Wild Birds@About.com

Birdinggirl (MA)

Birdinginyelapa.com (Mexico)

BirdNote (WA)

BirdOculars.com Blog

Birdorable Blog (IL)

BirdPost

Birds@Suite101.com

Birds and Climate Change

Birds and Nature (CO)

Birds Etcetera (MI)

Birds from Behind (OH)

Birds ‘n Such (VA)

Birds in My Bins & Lens (MI)

Birds in Your Backyard (GA)

Birds O' the Morning (CO)

Birds of Bay Area (CA)

Birds of Illinois (IL)

Birds of Maine (ME)

Birds of Plymouth Gardens (CA)

Birds on the Brain (GA)

Birdsbykim

Birdspot (NY)

Birdwatch–Tucson Arizona (AZ)

BirdWatchers Blog (MI)

BirdwatchingBlog—Bird Cams

BirdwatchRadio Blog (GA)

Birdy on My Window

Bloomingdale Village (NY)

Blossoms & Birdsong (ON)

Blue Lizard Birding (DE)

Bluebird of Friendliness (NY)

Blythe Birds and Silliness (CA)

Bob's Birding Blog (ID)

βoingbird—Extreme Birdwatching (MT)

bootstrap analysis (MI)

Boreal Bird Blog

Born Again Bird Watcher (OR)

Bourbon, Bastards, and Birds (CA)

BPBO Research Station Blog (ON)

Brandon’s Birding Blog

BRDPICS (CO)

Brett's Backyard Birds (OH)

Brewster’s Linnet (MA)

Broken Bow Birder (NE)

BrooklynParrots (NY)

Bubba's Birding Blog (Belize)

'Burgh Birder (ON)

Burning Hawk Blog (CA)

California Condor Conservation (CA)

Campephilus Woodpeckers (NY)

Caroline County MD Bird Club (MD)

Cass County Birding Page (MN)

CD 1000 - Clay's Digiscoping 1000

Central Park Wildlife Photography (NY)

Checkett Out@Ducks Unlimited (TN)

Chickadees, Juncos, and Jays Oh My! (CA)

Coastal Georgia Birding (GA)

Coffee & Conservation - Birds (MI)

Colder by the Lake (MN)

Colorado Birding (CO)

Colorado Field Ornithologists Photo Quiz (CO)

Columbus Peregrine Falcon Update (OH)

Confessions of a Backdoor Biologist (OK)

Confessions of a Reluctant Birder (NY)

Conservation Conversations (MO)

Corvid Corner

Cory's Blog (NE)

Costa Rica Living and Birding (Costa Rica)

Craig's Bird Watching and Nature Blog (FL)

Craig's Birds

Dakota’s All Natural Experience (IL)

Dave's Bird Watching Blog (NC)

DaveA's Birding Blog (CO)

DC Audubon Society (DC)

Delewaredunlins.com Blog (DE)

Drew's Birds (FL)

Donald the Birder's Blog (OH)

Dream Birding (TX)

Drive-By Birder (OH)

Duncraft's Wild Bird Blog

Earbirding.com (CO)

Earthbird’s Blog

eBirdseed.com

Ecobirder (MN)

El Chirimoyo for Birders (Michoacan, Mexico)

ETN Birder (TN)

Eugene Backyard Birds (OR)

Eureka Nature (AR)

Fairfax Birding (VA)

Falcon Blog (IN)

Falconry and Rehab Page (WY)

Falconstars (NY)

Feather Weather (CA)

Feathered Friends

Feeder Watch Fotos (NY)

Field and Swamp: Bird Blog (NC)

Field Notes@Maine Outdoor Journal (ME)

Fledging Birders Blog (NJ)

Fort Jefferson Dry Tortugas Birding Blog (FL)

Fowl Visions—Birding (FL)

From My Perch (MI)

Front Range Birding (CO)

GBBC Blog

Great Auk—or Greatest Auk? (NY)

Greensboro Birds (NC)

Greg’s Blog

Heather of the Hills (OH)

Hondu Birding (Honduras)

Hooked on Birding (CA)

Hummingbird Feeding Guide

Huron River Birding (MI)

I and the Bird

I Bird, You Watch (WI)

IBWO: Carolina Ivorybills (NC/SC)

IBWO: IBW Found Updates—As it Happens! (AL)

IBWO: Ivory-bills LiVE!!

IBWO: Updates from Florida (FL)

Idaho Bird Observatory (ID)

Imprints—Journal of the Rochester Falconcam (NY)

In a Cabin by a Wood (TX)

In the Field@Operation Migration (NY/ON)

International Bird Rescue Research Center (CA)

Introduced Birds Weblog (MI)

Iowa Voice (IA)

It's a bird thing (NM)

It's just me

Ivar's Birds (MN)

Jabberwocky of Jays (IL)

Jamestown Audubon Bird Sightings (NY)

Jeffrey A. Gordon (DE)

Jerry’s Birding / Digiscoping Blog (MI)

Jersey Birder (NJ)

John Rakestraw (OR)

JohnTheBirder (SK)

Josh Covill's Birding Blog (OR)

Julie Zickefoose (OH)

Kayak Paddle Tales (FL)

Kevin Bolton—Jersey Digiscoping (NJ)

Keweenaw Raptor Survey (MI)

Kitchen Window Birder (MA)

Lanny McDowell Avian Art (MA)

Larusology (ON)

Laura Goes Birding (OR)

Laura’s Birding Blog (NY)

Lee’s Birdwatching Adventures Plus (FL)

Liberating Wings (FL)

Life of Birds

Life, Birds, and Everything (AZ)

Local Birding Magazine (NY)

Looking Out from Central Massachusetts (MA)

LoonWatch (WI)

Macbirder's Blog (CA)

Mad Birders (VT)

Magnificent Frigatebird - North America

Maine Birds (ME)

Manistee Audubon (MI)

Marie Winn's Central Park Nature News (NY)

Married to a Birder (IN)

Mary's Corner of the World (CA)

MI-Birder (MI)

Michigan Hummingbird Guy (MI)

Michigan Important Bird Areas Program (MI)

Midway Field Journal—Albatross Conservation (HI)

Midwest Birder (MI)

Mike's Birding & Digiscoping Blog (WI)

Minnesota Birdnerd (MN)

Missouri’s birds (MO)

Mokka mit Schlag - Birding

Mon@rch’s Nature Blog (NY)

My Avian Friends (IL)

My Bird Tales

My Birding Blog (CA)

My Birds Blog (OH)

My Birdy Blog (OH)

My "Little Year" in 2008 (CA)

My Orange County Birding Blog (CA)

My Purple Martin Blog (FL)

Natural History Artwork (NY)

Natural Notes - Florida (FL)

NaturalVisions Blog - Birds

Nature Knitter (MN)

NCIOS - North Central Illinois Ornithological Society (IL)

Nebraska Birding (NE)

NEO Birding@The Plain Dealer (OH)

Nervous Birds (MD)

Net Results (MI)

New Jersey Bird Photos (NJ)

New Jersey Osprey Project (NJ)

New Jersey Outdoors (NJ)

New Mexico Birds (NM)

Night Flight Images

Nomadic Birder (OH)

North Coast Diaries (OR)

Northern Maine Birds (ME)

Notes from soggy bottom (TN)

Notes from the Wildside (PA)

Nutty Birder (IN)

NYC Birds (NY)

NYC Nova Hunter (NY)

OC Birding (CA)

OC Warbler (FL)

Ocellated (Birding) (AZ)

Of a Feather (PA)

Ohio Birds and Biodiversity (OH)

On Carolina Wings (NC)

Ornitholature (MN)

Ortego Birds (TX)

Our Neck of the Woods (WI)

Owl Box - It's an Owl's Life (NJ)

PAHawkowl (PA)

Palemaleirregulars (NY)

Patzcuaro Birder (Michocan, Mexico)

Pedernales Falls State Park Prothonotary Warbler Nest Box Study (TX)

Peeps Online@ABA

Peregrinations (NY)

Peregrine Chick Blog (MB)

Pete at Midway (HI)

Phantom Birder (FL)

Phenomenological Visions (MN)

Pickings from the Chum Stick (NY)

Picus Blog (MA)

Pioneer Birding (MA)

Pish (MA)

Placer County Big Year! (CA)

Portland Backyard Birds (OR)

Prairie Ice (MT)

Presque Isle Bird Banding (PA)

Puffinpalooza

QC Birding 2009 (QC)

Quebec Birding 2008 (QC)

RAPTOR Inc. Blog (OH)

Random Musing (WA)

Raven Watcher (ME)

Ravens in Hollywood (CA)

Recent Bird Reports from Quebec (QC)

Red and Peanut (OH)

Redhawk's Raptor Diaries (FL)

Rich Ditch's Photography Blog (AZ)

Roger's bird blog (OR)

Rosyfinch Ramblings (FL)

Round Robin (NY)

Rural Chatter: Birds, Nature, and Environment (CO)

Ruthven Park Nature Blog (ON)

San Diego Birding and Photography (CA)

Saskatchewan Birds, Nature and Scenery (new) (SK)

Saskatchewan Birding, Nature & Scenery (old) (SK)

Saw-whet Owl Research (PA)

Saw-whets News (WA)

ScottCronenweth (ME)

SE Colorado Birding (CO)

SE Texas Wildlife (TX)

SEANET Blog (MA)

Search and Serendipity

Semipalmated Llama (OH)

Shearwater's Journeys (CA)

Shorebirder (CT)

Sibley Guides Notebook (MA)

Sitka Nature (AK)

Sitta Canadensis (ON)

Six-hundred Fifty Eight (MB)

Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center's Blog (DC)

So Much Work, So Little Time..So Let’s Go Birding (AZ)

Something Clever (OR)

South Carolina Birder (SC)

South Shore Journal (MA)

Southeastern Shrike Adventures (GA)

Sparroworking in Quebec (QC)

SpeakBeak

Steph’s Birding Blog (IL)

Stokes Birding Blog (NH)

Surner Birding (MA)

Susan Gets Native (OH)

Such-N-Such Bird Blog (CO)

Swampblog (TX)

Tails of Birding (VT)

Talking Nature (CT)

Team Fly or Die (NJ)

Ted Eubanks' BirdSpert (TX)

Tern Island 2008 (HI)

Tern Island Times (HI)

Texas Bird Conservation Alliance (TX)

The Armchair Birder (GA)

The Bird Boy (NY)

The Birdchaser (PA)

The Birdcouple (MD)

The Bird Nerd (CA)

The Birder's Library (GA)

The Birder's Report (CA)

The Birding Blog of a California Young Birder (CA)

The Birding Life (OK)

The Birding Retailer’s Merchandising/Marketing Blog

The Birdist

The Bluebird’s Laugh (WI)

The Brownstone Birding Blog (CT)

The Bufflehead Birder (PA)

The Celery Farm & Beyond (NJ)

The City Birder (NY)

The Contemplative Nuthatch (NY)

The Curious Birder (MA)

The Distracted Birders

The Drinking Bird (NC)

The Endless Wilderness (UT)

The Epicurean Birder

The Eyrie—ABA’s Blog for Young Birders

The Fat Finch Bird Brain Blog (NM)

The Feather and the Flower (NY)

The Firefly Forest - Arizona Birds (AZ)

The Flycatcher (OR)

The Flying Mullet (FL)

The Gulls of Appledore (ME)

The Hawk Owl's Nest (NJ)

The Houston Birder (TX)

The Hudson River Birder (NY)

The Leica Birding Blog (FL)

The Meadowlands Blog (NJ)

The Near Georgia Report (GA)

The Nemesis Bird (PA)

The Networked Bird Observatory Blog (TX)

The Nightjar (NY)

The Oceanwanderers Book Shelf (NY)

The Origin of Species (NY)

The Ovenbird (NY)

The Passionate Birder

The Pelee Chickadee (ON)

The Perch—Audubon Magazine’s Blog (NY)

The Plover Warden Diaries (MA)

The Remnant Writer (IL)

The Shorebird Project (NJ)

The Spark Bird Blog (OH)

The SW WI Birder (WI)

The Tiny Aviary (IL)

The Urban Pantheist - Birds (NY)

The Wild Bird (WA)

The Zen Birdfeeder (NY)

There’s An Ibis in My Backyard! (FL)

Thoughts of an Iowa Birdwatcher (IA)

Tick Magnate (NY)

Tigrina Times@Cape May Bird Observatory (NJ)

Tim Avery Birding Blog (UT)

Tina's Bird Yarns (PA)

Today in NJ Birding History (NJ)

Toronto Bird Observatory Blog (ON)

Towheeblog (CA)

Twitterpated (IL)

Twin Beaks (NY)

Two Birders to Go (CA)

Ultimate Guide to Bird Feeders and Feeding (OH)

Under Clear Skies (CT)

Urban Birder (MO)

Urban Hawks (NY)

Vagrant

Veracruz Hawkwatch(Veracruz, Mexico)

Vermont Center for Ecostudies (VT)

View from the Cape@Cape May Bird Observatory (NJ)

Vickie Henderson Art (TN)

Vulture Cafe (PNW)

Walk With Me (IL)

Warbler Watch (CA)

WBPO - Owls (MI)

WBPO - Sightings (MI)

Whitefish Point Bird Observatory - Waterbirds (MI)

WBU's Birding Blog (FL)

Weekend Shooter (MN)

Wekiva Basin Banding Station (FL)

Well Regarded Birds (CA)

West Coast Birding (BC)

Wholly Natural (PA)

Whooper Happenings

Wild Birds Unlimited (Lansing, MI)

WildBird on the Fly (CA)

Wildbirds Broadcasting (NE)

WingbarsCafe

Wingbeat: The WINGS Birding Blog

Winged Wonders (NJ)

Wingnut (MN)

Wings Sprit (GA)

Woodcreeper (NJ)

Words on Birds (IL)

World Bird Sanctuary (MO)

Zugunruhe (CO)

Inactive (i.e., no blog-posting in more than a year):

“Witchities” World Series of Birding Blog (NJ)

A View from the North (MB)

Alan's BirdCam Blog (GA)

B and B - Birds (TX)

Backyard Birding

Bird Notes from West Houston (TX)

Bird Watching for Birders

Bird Watching in Westcliffe (CO)

birdDC (DC)

Birding Virginia (VA)

Birdspotting (BC)

Birdwatch (Veracruz, Mexico)

Birdwatchin' Buzz (CA)

BirdWatching

Citizen Science Projects - Ornithology

Dave Slager’s Blog (MI)

East Bay Birders (WA)

Florida Big Year (FL)

For Elect Eyes Only (WA)

Gulf Crossings (TX)

Home Bird Days (NJ)

IBWO: Cornell's Arkansas Search Travel Log 2007-08 (AR)

IBWO: Cornell’s Mobile Search Team Travel Log 2006-07 (NY)

IBWO: Cornell’s Mobile Search Team Travel Log 2007-08 (NY)

IBWO: Feathered Ghosts

IBWO: Ivory-bill Skeptic (now known as Tom Nelson; the last significant post about IBWOs appeared in mid-September 2007--see here) (MN)

IBWO: News from the 2007 Search (ON)

IBWO: The Choctawhatchee Search (FL)

Illinois Birds (IL)

Little Big Year (WI)

Migrateblog (IL)

My Backyard Birds (VA)

Night of the Kingfisher (ON)

Omar's Birding (NJ)

Ornitheologisms

Ornithology (OH)

Osprey Project(IN)

Quebec year list 2007 (QC)

rkbirding (CA)

Southwestern Birding Tales (NV)

The Chronicles

The Incorrigible Birder (Veracruz, Mexico)

The QUBS Review (CO)

The Rookie Birder (IL)

Towhee.net Birding Blog (CA)

Whitefish Point Bird Observatory Owl Research (MI)

Windy City Birder (IL)

Last revised: 03/25/10.

African Bird Blogs

What follows is a list of active African bird blogs that are personally known to me. I’m sure that there are others that I have not yet discovered. My goal is to make this list as comprehensive as possible. I plan to update the list frequently, so if you know of other African bird blogs (or have one yourself) that should be included here, please leave a comment.

Active:

A Raptors Ramblings (South Africa)

Accipiters of Southern Africa (South Africa)

Adam Welz's Weblog (South Africa)

Aliwal Birdblog (South Africa)

Birding Limpopo (South Africa)

Birding With Trish (South Africa)

Birdman (Tanzania)

Bryan Groom (South Africa)

Colin's Bird Atlassing Blog (South Africa)

Ernst’s Birding Blog (South Africa)

GetBirding.com (South Africa)

Kersten Birding (South Africa)

KZN Atlasing (South Africa)

KZN Midlands Bird Club (South Africa)

mafikeng birds (South Africa)

My Bird Sightings (South Africa)

Stuart Groom (South Africa)

Inactive:

Birding in South Africa (South Africa)

Last revised: 03/30/10.

South American Bird Blogs

What follows is a list of active and inactive bird blogs of South America that are personally known to me. I’m sure that there are others that I have not yet discovered. My goal is to make this list as comprehensive as possible. I plan to update the list frequently, so if you know of other South American bird blogs (or have one yourself) that should be included here, please leave a comment.

Active:

Area de Ornitologica (Peru) [Spanish]

Aves de Jaú (Brazil) [Portuguese]

Aves do Território Alagoano (Brazil) [Portuguese]

Birding in Peru and South America (Peru)

Birding in Southern Peru (Peru)

Birding in the Falkland Islands

Birds in Brasil (Brazil)

Birds in Peru (Peru)

Birds of Prey - Aves de Rapina (Brazil) [Portuguese]

Brazil (Brazil)

Brazilian Birder (Brazil)

Caapora (Brazil) [Portuguese]

Expedições Ornitológicas (Brazil) [Portuguese]

Passarinhando (Brazil) [Portuguese]

Surucuá e Tristezas do Jeca (Brazil) [Portuguese]

Teach Me About Birdwatching!!! (Peru)

Inactive:

Peru Birding (Peru)

The Dodo Blog (Brazil)

Last revised: 4/14/09.

Bird Blogs of Australia and New Zealand

What follows is a list of active and inactive bird blogs of Australia and New Zealand that are personally known to me. I’m sure that there are others that I have not yet discovered. My goal is to make this list as comprehensive as possible. I plan to update the list frequently, so if you know of other Australian or New Zealand bird blogs (or have one yourself) that should be included here, please leave a comment.

Active:

A Bird in the Bush (NSW)

An Australian Bird Bander (ACT)

Ben Cruachan - Natural History

Bird Anonymous (NSW)

Bird Explorers (NSW)

Bird Note—Words on Birds (NSW)

Birding - with Max (NSW)

Birds and Things (QLD)

Birds in Tasmania (TAS)

Blackbirdblog (New Zealand)

Cooloola Birds (QLD)

Craig Miller - Blogography (NSW)

Gouldiae's Blog (VIC)

Lucky's bird photography adventures (NSW)

Mark Young's Birding Blog (NSW)

My Birding Blogs (NSW)

Nordmann's Greenshank (NSW)

Nyoman's Birdwatching (QLD)

Richard Hall's Birding Blog (SA)

Sandy Straits and Beyond

Search and Serendipity

Steve Happ Photography

The Northern Myth – Birds (NT)

Trevor's Birding (SA)

Tyto Tony (QLD)

Inactive (i.e., no blog-postings in more than a year):

ACT Big Twitch (ACT)

Birding South Australia (SA)

Dabbler (WA)

Local birds etc. (VIC)

Of Emus and Fairy Wrens

Last revised: 6/27/09.

Asian Bird Blogs

What follows is a list of active and inactive English-language Asian bird blogs that are personally known to me. I’m sure that there are others that I have not yet discovered. My goal is to make this list as comprehensive as possible. I plan to update the list frequently, so if you know of other Asian bird blogs (or have one yourself) that should be included here, please leave a comment.

Active:

A Birdwatcher's Diary (India)

Addi the Birde (India)

Amazing Borneo (Malaysia)

Bird Ecology Study Group (Singapore)

Bird Group – MNS Selangor Branch (Malaysia)

Birders of Sabah Borneo Island (Malaysia)

Birding Babylon (Iraq)

Birding India (India)

Birding Israel (Israel)

Birding Kabul (Afghanistan)

Birding Mongolia (Mongolia)

Birds and Nature Photography (Malaysia)

Birds Rule!!! (Singapore)

Birdwatching of Indonesia (Indonesia)

Burung Sulawesi (Indonesia)

Carmo Police (Japan)

Dartford Waffler - Thailand (Thailand)

Dig Deep (Malaysia)

Electric Birding (Thailand)

Friendly Animals (India)

Gallicissa (Sri Lanka)

Hakodate Birding (original) (Japan)

Hakodate Birding (new) (Japan)

Hirobirder (Japan)

Indian Birder (India)

John’s Hong Kong Birding Blog (Hong Kong)

My Birding field trips (Malaysia)

Nordmann's Greenshank (Australia)

Phuket Birders Blog (Thailand)

Shore Birds in Japan (Japan)

Sri Lanka Birds (Sri Lanka)

The Jewelthrush Diaries

Those magnificent flying machines (India)

Urban Babblers (India)

Wildlife, Bird Watching, etc. (India)

Wild Birding Philippines (Philippines)

Inactive (i.e., no blog-posting in more than a year):

Easy Bird Watching Guide

Kazu Birding (Japan)

Thai Birds and More (Thailand)

Tokyo Birder (Japan)

Last revised: 6/27/09.

Random Gleanings from the Birdosphere #2

Introduction: A daily (or as often as I can find time to compile it) feature that highlights recent entries from North American bird blogs listed in my blogroll; also see here.

Today’s Featured Blog:

Field Notes – the author “is an avid birder and the owner of the Wild Bird Center in Yarmouth. Check in frequently for information about birding in Maine and more,” by Derek Lovitch (since August 2005)

Today's Featured Entry (excerpt):

Portland Birding and Business

My first stop this morning was Winslow Park. Low tide concentrates waterfowl near the tip of the park, and this is usually when I tally my highest counts of Barrow’s Goldeneyes for any particular week. Since I last visited the park at high tide on Tuesday, and only saw 5 individuals, I hoped to “up” my week’s high count today. (click here to read more, as originally published on February 27, 2007)

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Random Gleanings from the Birdosphere #1

Introduction: If blogs inhabit the blogosphere, then it can be said that bird blogs inhabit the birdosphere. This daily (or as often as can find time to compile it) feature will highlight entries from North American bird blogs listed in my blogroll. To ensure that each blog has an equal opportunity to be featured, the blog of the day is chosen by randomly selecting a number (using an online random number generator) 1 to 200, each blog having been pre-assigned a unique number within that range. Once the featured blog of the day is selected, the featured entry is chosen by randomly selecting a number from 1 to 10 (corresponding to the 1st through 10th most-recent blog entry).

Today’s Featured Blog:

Birding Watching in South Florida – “I moved to South Florida in 2001 from Ithaca, NY, and found that I had to adjust my bird watching habits a bit down here. Live and learn. Enjoy my stories,” by Vonnie in South Florida (since February 2005)

Today’s Featured Entry:

The Eagles have landed!

"This morning I decided to surf the Audubon website and I came across this cool webcam monitoring an Eagle’s nest in Port St. Lucie. Click here and check out our state’s Eagles at close range. Enjoy!" (as originally posted here on January 27, 2007)

Still More North American Bird Blogs—An Update

In May 2006, I was aware of 90 known North American bird blogs. The number of such blogs had increased to 122 by November 2006, and to 138 by December 2006.

Since my last update, I have added 63 blogs (including the 42 listed below that have been added since the first of the year) and deleted 6 blogs that are no longer available. As a result, my blogroll currently lists 179 known North American bird blogs; including 30 that, while still available, are considered "inactive" (i.e., no entries posted in the last 90 days).

To be included on this list, sites must meet the following criteria: (1) the subject matter is primarily or consistently about birds, birding, or birders; (2) the authors are physically located in North America, or write about birds, birding, or birders on that continent; (3) it was active in the past year (i.e., at least one entry); and (4) it is structured in the format of a blog (i.e., dated entries in reverse chronological order).

There are many wonderful bird blogs out there, folks. As great as they are, you are definitely doing yourself a disservice if you limit yourself to reading the the "13 best" North American blogs mentioned here. I urge you to go out and explore some of the new (and not so new) blogs that I have listed below; they offer a great variety of incredible photographs, wonderful writing, and as many points of view about birds, birders, and birding as there are blogs on those topics.

NEW BLOGS (42):

2 Birders to Go – “This is a journal of our birding/photography trips,” by Bob and Cynthia Kaufman in South Pasadena, California (August 2006)

Antshrike’s Birding Page – “Bird diary of South Texas and beyond” (November 2004)

Audubon’s Daughter – A collection of stories previously published elsewhere by the author, Jonathan Perez (February 2007)

Avian Tendencies – Adventures of Michigan birder Caleb Putnam (January 2007)

Beginning to bird - “For people who are new to bird-watching, and those who want to learn about people who are new to bird-watching,” by dguzman in Spring Mills, Pennsylvania (June 2006)

Bell Tower Birding – “Birding adventures in the heart of Ann Arbor,” by Jochen in Ann Arbor, Michigan (November 2006)

Betsy’s Bird Journal – “Just a beginning birder’s journal,” by Betsy True in Alexandria, Virginia (February 2005)

Bird Advocates – “We are advocates for the preservation and enjoyment of our native wildlife. It has been proven our wildlife is especially vulnerable to the millions of feral and roaming cats because they evolved separately. A reality based forum.” (December 2006)

Bird Couple – Love … birds – by Warren & Lisa Strobel, the BirdingCouple, on the Chesapeake Bay (November 2006)

bird QUIZ – “Take the challenge," by mon@rch (January 2007)

Birdfreak Birding Blog – “Building a conservation community, one birder at a time,” by Birdfreak.com (December 2006)

Birding on Broadmeade – “Supplementing my neighborhood birding column,” by Mikael Behrens in Austin, Texas (February 2007)

Birding Sonoma County – “Identifying and studying birds in Sonoma County, CA, and neighboring regions,” by 2 Bright Birders (December 2006)

Birdspotting – “Birding around southern Vancouver Island for the most part, but really I’ll write about wherever the wind takes me . . . I’m skinny, but I don’t literally mean the wind takes me places!” by Jeremy Gatten in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia (December 2006)

Born Again Bird Watcher – “Sharing the joys, discoveries, quandaries, and other psychological phenomena arising from encountering anew as an amateur something I have done professionally for years,” by John Riutta in Scappoose, Oregon (February 2007)

Bur Oak – “A biologist living on the edge of the Canadian Shield, in the shade of a Bur Oak, at the side of a lake, on the cusp of graduating…,” by Michael (October 2005)

Chickadees, Juncos, and Jays Oh My! – “Backyard bird watching in northern California” (February 2007)

Citizen Science Projects—Ornithology – “In this weblog, I’ll try to point to interesting projects and bits of news related to the work being done by citizen scientists—and the organizations that support them,” by Terrie (September 2004)

Duncraft’s Wild Bird Blog – “for nature enthusiasts,” from Duncraft.com. (November 2006)

East Bay Birders – *Photos and observations of the birds and other animals that frequent Olympia, WA’s East Bay, by Rupert Grove in Olympia, Washington (August 2006)

Feathered Ghosts – “Notes from the swamp (ramblings about my participation in the search for Ivory-billed Woodpecker),” by Mark VanderVen in Bellingham, Washington, and De Funiak Springs, Florida (January 2007)

Florida Big Year – A journal of one man’s big year quest, by Andy Bankert in Brevard County, Florida (January 2007)

Geobirding – “The infusion of birding & geography,” from the Birdfreak Team (January 2007)

It’s a bird thing – Musings by “a passionate birder from Albuquerque,” New Mexico (January 2007)

Ivar’s Birds – “This blog describes the portion of my life devoted to birds and photography,” by Ivar Krafts in Circle Pines, Minnesota (March 2007)

Ivory-billed Septic – Humor and sarcasm, by an acrid birder (February 2007)

Midwest Birder - "This blog will periodically chronicle the findings and travels of this birder who spends the majority of his hear in Michigan now, but who grew up in SE Wisconsin and still spends at least a month of the year there," by Sean Fitzgerald in Grand Rapids, Michigan (November 2005)

Mobile Search Team Travel Log—IBWO – Periodic updates on activities and findings of the Cornell Lab or Ornithology’s mobile Ivory-billed Woodpecker search team, winter 2006-2007 (December 2006)

Natural History Artworks – “A blog on natural history art—especially birds,” by Benjamin M. Clock (November 2006)

News from the 2007 Search—IBWO – Periodic updates on activities and findings of David Mennill’s Ivory-billed Woodpecker search team from the University of Windsor (January 2007)

Recent Bird Reports from Quebec – “Rare and interesting bird sightings from Quebec made available to birders by Bird Protection Quebec” (January 2006)

Remembering New Jersey – “A doctor-birder remembers New Jersey and other scenic landfills,” by Ken Schneider (September 2006)

Search and Serendipity – “A birder’s blog,” by David J. Ringer in Dallas, Texas (December 2004)

The bird nerd’s avian adventures – “In the Napa Valley,” by Lisa Kohler (September 2006)

The Brownstone Birding Blog – “Bits and pieces of information from a novice birder living in Portland, Connecticut, ‘home of the brownstone quarries,’” by Larry in Portland, Connecticut(December 2006)

The Egret’s Nest – “My thoughts about my life, my family, my world from my own nest in the redwoods,” by Liza Lee Miller in Boulder Creek, California (July 2006)

The Leica Birding Blog – “sponsored by Leica Sport Optics, USA, and hosted by Bird Watcher’s Digest,” by Jeff Bouton in Florida (January 2007)

The Nemesis Bird – by Drew Weber in Pennsylvania (December 2006)

The QUBS Review – “Scientific findings based on flora and fauna at the Queen’s University Biological Station,” by Katie Langin in Kingston, Ontario (September 2006)

Updates from Florida—IBWO – Periodic updates on Auburn University’s Ivory-billed Woodpecker search team, by Geoff Hill in Auburn, Alabama (November 2006)

Vagrant – “Ruminations on birding,” by Tom Auer (January 2007)

Whooper Happenings – “What’s happening in the world of the endangered Whooping Crane” (January 2006)

INACTIVE (30):

A View from the north
Bird Notes from West Houston
Bird Traveling
Bird Watching for Birders
Bird Watching: How to Study Birds
Birders on the Border
Birds of Plymouth gardens
Birdtography
BirdWatching
Brinkley Birding
Carolina Ivorybills
Chicago Bird Watching
East Bay Birders
Falconstars
Fluidfive Birding
For Elect Eyes Only
Hamilton Birding
Home Bird Days
Home Bird Notes
Home Conservation
Migrateblog
Ornitholature
Ornithology
Stercus
The Chronicles
The Incorrible Birder
The Blover Warden Diaries
The Rookie Birder
Veracruz Hawkwatch
Windy City Birder

DELETED/No Longer Available (6):

Birding Mania News
Daniell’s Den – Birding & Nature
Nick K’s Weblog
RaddBlog
Vermont Bird Tours
WPBO