Research Guides: BIO326H5: Ornithology: Bird Identification

Field Guides

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds by John Bull; John Farrand (Revised by); Lori Hogan (Contribution by); Amanda Wilson (Contribution by); National Audubon Society Staff
Call Number: QL681 .B77 1994 REFERENCE

Many of these guides are considered reference material and can be found in the Reference Stacks at the Call Number QL681. Here is a list of other bird field guides in the library.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds by John Ferrand (Revised by); Lori Hogan (Contribution by); Amanda Wilson (Contribution by); Miklos D. Udvardy
Call Number: QL681 .U33 1994 REFERENCE
The ROM Field Guide to Birds of Ontario by Janice Hughes; Royal Ontario Museum Staff
Call Number: QL685.5 .O6 H83 2001 REFERENCE
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America by Roger Tory Peterson (Editor); Virginia Marie Peterson (Editor)
Call Number: QL681 .P45 2002 REFERENCE

Bird ID apps

Bird ID Websites

Bird Calls

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Macaulay Library has the world's largest archive of wildlife sounds and videos. The mobile site can be found at here.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Bird Song Hero is a sound matching game that helps you visualize bird song. The tutorial can be found here.
Guide to North American Bird Songs and Sounds is intended to help you identify songs and sounds of North American birds.
xeno-canto is a website dedicated to sharing bird sounds from all over the world and is an example of citizen science at work as anyone with an account can upload their recordings.
Project AVoCet is a global database of well-documented, downloadable bird sounds.
https://www.bird-sounds.net/ Discover all the birds of North America through bird sounds and pictures. (602 species)

Bird Feathers

The Feather Atlas
An image database dedicated to the identification and study of the flight feathers of North American birds. The feathers illustrated are from the curated collection of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory.