Skip to navigation | Skip to content

Share your knowledge. Make a difference.

A World Birder's Dream

1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic (by 11 people)   Your rating: 1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic

Ranked #1992 in Animals, #46302 overall

Rated G. (Control what you see)

Bird the World - my dream. Join me on this quest.

 

My dream and passion is to be able to bird the world.  I am a disabled senior who like to see birding hot spots become accessible birding destinations.

Birding can be one of the quieter and more relaxing outdoor activities. However, birders who are keen rarity-seekers will travel long distances to locate new and rare species, intending to add these to their list of personally observed bird

Explore my lenses 

The ultimate CD for birders 

Guide to Birds of North America v3.9 - Windows

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)

* Over 2800 color photos, 90 videos
* 708 Songs - export to iPod
* Hundreds of Quizzes
* Includes The Birder's Handbook
* 925 bird species

 

I urge everyone, disabled or able bodied to visit the DBA website and join up (for free) and help make birding truly accessible to all wherever possible.
A Disabled Birding Resource
The birds must come first of course, but that aside a little effort could make many places more accessible than they are. Furthermore, such improved physical access needs to be combined with greater sensitivity by all birders toward those with special needs.
Disabled Birders Association
The Disabled Birders Association is a relatively young organization seeking to improve access for people with disabilities to reserves, facilities and services for birding. We have members across the world but the majority live in the UK. There is a separate chapter in the USA.

Indoor Birdwatching 

Birds, Birds, Birds! An Indoor Birdwatching Field Trip DVD Video Bird and Bird Song Guide

Amazon Price: $21.99 (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $24.95

The DVD can be viewed on the living room TV or on personal computers as a 70-minute bird-filled documentary. It also serves as an audio/visual reference guide-- one can use the easy-to-use menus to quickly find a particular bird (it contains 218 species found in Midwest and Eastern North America). The DVD is full of extraordinary photography, bird songs and with video footage.
Some features unique to the DVD include a collection of 18 quizzes

Release Date: 12/01/2004

 

Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America

Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America

mfr: Master Vision This item cannot be shipped to more...0 points

Kestrel's Eye

Kestrel's Eye

mfr: Master Vision This item cannot be shipped to more...0 points

Birding in India in the Spotlight 

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India: And the Indian Subcontinent, Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives (Princeton Field Guides)

Amazon Price: $25.55 (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $35.00

This is the most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of India and the Indian subcontinent. Never before have so many of the region's species been illustrated in one book.

The brilliant photographs--most of which appear here for the first time--have been carefully selected to show not only the most common Passerine and non-Passerine species, but also more elusive species and distinctive subspecies. An up-to-date distribution map and a unique code indicating frequency and global status are provided for each of the 668 species covered. The concise text provides vital information on habitats, habits, and voice to ensure accurate identification.

 

New - World Birding Books 

Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die: Birding Experts Share The World's Greatest Destinations

Amazon Error: Could not open remote connection

Sorry, there are no results available from Amazon.

Wild Bird Guides 

Eastern Bluebird; Northern Cardinal; The Great Horned Owl; Downy Woodpecker; The black-capped chickadee; Ruby-Throated Hummingbird; American Goldfinch; Tufted Titmouse; Red-tailed Hawk

A customer review about the Eastern Bluebird book:
We recently moved to our neighborhood and surprisingly found that two bluebirds live in the area. We know how scarce they have been in recent years and want to help them as much as we can, to survive and proliferate. This book is exactly what we needed. It has everything we there is to know about bluebirds, from what to feed them and how to build or purchase a house that they may nest in, without fear of other birds disturbing them. It is a great book!!!

Eastern Bluebird (Wild Bird Guides) by Gary Ritchison

Eastern Bluebird (Wild Bird Guides) by Gary Ritchison

An engaging portrait of the Eastern Bluebird's lif more...1 point

Northern Cardinal (Wild Bird Guides) by Gary Ritchison

Northern Cardinal (Wild Bird Guides) by Gary Ritchison

The Northern Cardinal is well written, easy to rea more...0 points

Great Horned Owl (Wild Bird Guides) by Dwight G. Smith

Great Horned Owl (Wild Bird Guides) by Dwight G. Smith

The complete natural history of this popular speci more...0 points

Downy Woodpecker: Wild Bird Guides by Gary Ritchison

Downy Woodpecker: Wild Bird Guides by Gary Ritchison

This book is part of a wonderful series (Wild Bird more...0 points

Black-Capped Chickadee (Wild Bird Guides) by Susan M. Smith

Black-Capped Chickadee (Wild Bird Guides) by Susan M. Smith

The black-capped chickadee is certainly one of the more...0 points

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird by Robert R. Sargent

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird by Robert R. Sargent

The photos that accompany the text are the ones I more...0 points

American Goldfinch (Wild Bird Guides) by Alex L. A. Middleton

American Goldfinch (Wild Bird Guides) by Alex L. A. Middleton

A lovely book about one of America's favorite back more...0 points

Tufted Titmouse (Wild Bird Guides) by Thomas C. Grubb

Tufted Titmouse (Wild Bird Guides) by Thomas C. Grubb

The tufted titmouse is a common resident of North more...0 points

Red-Tailed Hawk (Wild Bird Guides) by Charles R. Preston

Red-Tailed Hawk (Wild Bird Guides) by Charles R. Preston

The Red-tailed Hawk is one of America's most famil more...0 points

Black Grouse of Norway 

Black Grouse Lek

Deep into the woodland in Norway, you can watch a spectacular view a couple of weeks in the spring. It's the Black Grouse Lek

Runtime: 2:21
6503 views
4 Comments:

powered by YouTube

Collecting Bird Art? 

BIRDS-TRIVETS-CARDINAL TILE by Besheer Art Tile, Bedford, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

# HEAT RESISTANT TRIVET HAND PAINTED IN THE U.S.A.
# HAND MADE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE USING RAISED PORCELAIN ENAMELS
# BEAUTIFULLY GIFT BOXED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
# DECORATIVE TILE WALL DECOR

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $32.95

Australian Kookaburra Animals Giclee Poster Print by DanoZ, 20x24

Colour Pencil Drawing of Native Bird.

Amazon Price: $49.99 (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price:

Great Spotted Woodpecker 

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Great Spotted Woodpecker 639 Dendrocopos major Piciformes Picidae. For more info go to http://worldbirds.page.tl/BIRDS-AND-BIRDING.htm

Runtime: 1:45
705 views
1 Comments:

powered by YouTube

Wild Bird Art 

Loading Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
eBay

Spotlight 

Garden Birds: Get to Know the Natural World (Collins Wild Guide)

Amazon Price: $13.25 (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $16.99

Compact and easy-to-use, Wild Guide Garden Birds is the perfect introduction to this increasingly popular subject.

Read about Birders who Bird the World 

To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime Obsession

Over the years he spotted more than 7,000 different species, a number achieved by fewer than a dozen others.

Amazon Price: (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $24.95

The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year

Amazon Price: $18.00 (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $18.00

Birding by Ear 

Bird Song Ear Training Guide: Who Cooks for Poor Sam Peabody? Learn to Recognize the Songs of Birds from the Midwest and Northeast States

The best format I've seen yet for learning birdsongs...the most fun of any songstudy CD I've used.

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $14.95

Bird Shirts on eBay 

Loading Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
eBay

Bird Families of the World - textbook quality 

Much of the information in these books have never previously been published.

Ducks, Geese, and Swans: 2-Volume Set (Bird Families of the World)

Ducks, Geese, and Swans: 2-Volume Set (Bird Families of the World)

Ducks, Geese and Swans begins with eight chapters more...0 points

Nightjars and their Allies: The Caprimulgiformes (Bird Families of the World) by D. T. Holyoak

Nightjars and their Allies: The Caprimulgiformes (Bird Families of the World) by D. T. Holyoak

Nightjars and their allies are a curious, fascinat more...0 points

The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae (Bird Families of the World) by Clifford B. Frith

The Bowerbirds: Ptilonorhynchidae (Bird Families of the World) by Clifford B. Frith

The bowerbirds are confined to the great island of more...0 points

Pelicans, Cormorants, and Their Relatives: The Pelecaniformes (Bird Families of the World) by J. Bryan Nelson

Pelicans, Cormorants, and Their Relatives: The Pelecaniformes (Bird Families of the World) by J. Bryan Nelson

This book addresses the breeding biology of the si more...0 points

The Herons: Ardeidae (Bird Families of the World) by James A. Kushlan

The Herons: Ardeidae (Bird Families of the World) by James A. Kushlan

The authors have extensive experience of research more...0 points

The Hawaiian Honeycreepers: Drepanidinae (Bird Families of the World) by H. Douglas Pratt

The Hawaiian Honeycreepers: Drepanidinae (Bird Families of the World) by H. Douglas Pratt

The most important defining fact for Hawaiian hone more...0 points

Ratites and Tinamous (Bird Families of the World) by Stephen Davies

Ratites and Tinamous (Bird Families of the World) by Stephen Davies

Each of the 55 species is described in detail, wit more...0 points

The Cuckoos (Bird Families of the World) by Robert B. Payne

The Cuckoos (Bird Families of the World) by Robert B. Payne

Traces details of the cuckoos' biology to their or more...0 points

Albatrosses and Petrels across the World (Bird Families of the World) by Michael Brooke

Albatrosses and Petrels across the World (Bird Families of the World) by Michael Brooke

Visiting all the world's seas, the 125 species of more...0 points

Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides (Bird Families of the World) by Lester Short

Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides (Bird Families of the World) by Lester Short

This book covers in unmatched detail the life hist more...0 points

Grebes: Podicipedidae (Bird Families of the World) by Jon Fjeldsa

Grebes: Podicipedidae (Bird Families of the World) by Jon Fjeldsa

Those who are unfamiliar with grebes tend to think more...0 points

Birdwatcher's stuff 

Loading Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
eBay

Variety of World Birds items 

Winged Migration - DVD

Winged Migration - DVD

Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, sh more...1 point