Birding Resources
A running list of the resources I use in my study of birds! If you need help getting or accessing any of these, please don't hesitate to reach out.
It's a Mess!
Pardon my dust and all that jazz. This is a very early draft! If you're reading it, hello! I'd be happy if you pointed out any mistakes. Here's the change log!
Websites
- Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- eBird's Species Maps
- eBird's Status and Trends
- Birds of the World, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- The Texas Breeding Bird Atlas, Texas A&M Agrilife Research
- Great Texas Wildlife Trails, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
- Texas Bird Records Committee
- Birdcast, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
My Bookshelf
- Smithsonian Handbooks: Birds of Texas, Fred J. Alsop III, 2002. [x]
- This book was the handbook I first had as a child, and my first introduction to what many species of birds looked like. I fell in love with birds early, and came back to this book often. My copy is, to put it mildly, well loved.
- A Field Guide to the Birds of Texas, Roger Tory Peterson, 1963. [x]
- An old, severely outdated field guide that I picked up earlier this year. A very interesting read full of outdated information. Many of the species within appear under different names than we now know them by, some have been split, some have been lumped, and many on the accidentals list are either more regularly known or outdated. A curiosity more than anything. Personally, I’ve been greatly enjoying checking birds off of the included checklist (and writing in the ones this edition missed)
- Field Guide to Advanced Birding, Kenn Kaufman, 2011. [x]
- Field Guide to the Birds of North America Third Edition, National Geographic Society, 1999. [x]
- Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees, Cin-Ty Lee, 2023. [x]
- Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus, Cin-Ty Lee, 2024. [x]
- Birds of the Trans Pecos, Jim Peterson and Barry R. Zimmer, 1998. [x]
- The Warbler Guide, Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle, 2013. [x]
- A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico, Noble S. Proctor and Patrick J. Lynch, 2011. [x]
- Finding Birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, Ted Lee Eubanks Jr., Robert A. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson, 2008. [x]
- Birding the Southwestern National Parks, Roland H. Wauer, 2004. [x]
Useful & Interesting Articles and Papers
- Field Identification of Western and Eastern Wood-Pewees, Cin-Ty Lee, Andrew Birch, Ted Lee Eubanks. September 2008, Birding.
- Advances in the Field Identification of North American Dowitchers, Cin-Ty Lee, Andrew Birch. September 2006, Birding.
- Ecology, Behavior, and Reproduction of an Introduced Population of Red-Vented Bulbuls in Houston, Texas, Daniel M. Brooks. 2013, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
- Habitat Associations of Migrating and Overwintering Grassland Birds in Southern Texas, Lawrence D. Igl, Bart M. Ballard. 1999, The Condor.
- Age and Sex Determination in Rufous and Allen Hummingbirds, F. Gary Styles. Spring 1972, The Condor.
- Niche Convergence in Empidonax Flycatchers, Robert A. Frakes, Richard E. Johnson. August 1982, The Condor.
- Foraging and Habitat Relationships of the Sister Species Willow Flycatcher and Alder Flycatcher in Southern Ontario, John C. Barlow, W. Bruce McGillivray. 1983, Canada Journal of Zoology.
- Identification of Chihuahuan Raven and its Status North of Mexico, David Sibley. September 25, 2024, ABA.org.
- Acoustic Survey of Nocturnal Bird Migration at Rice University in Houston, Texas during fall 2020, Cin-Ty Lee, Gavin Aquila, Andrew Birch. 2021, Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society.
- The Concept of Bird Species: Theory and Practice, E. A. Koblik et al. 2020, Biology Bulletin.