It always helps to have a little information to help out the beginning birder. Explore these links to learn some more about the basics of birdwatching:
- Hobbies at Home: A Guide to Birdwatching
- Bird Watching Basics
- How to Identify Birds
- A Guide to Birdwatching with Binoculars (and lots of other helpful articles)
- Choosing Binoculars
- Best Bird Watching Spotting Scopes 2019
- The Best Birding Apps and Field Guides
- 10 Ways to Help Birds
- Birding Festivals and Events
Organizations:
- American Birding Association
- American Bird Conservancy
- Birdwatching Daily
- Birds and Blooms
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- National Audubon Society
- Bird Studies Canada
Citizen Science:
For reference, databases, conservation:
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
- eBird
- Macaulay Library
- Xeno-Canto
- iNaturalist
- Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
- Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture
- Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
- Blue Ridge Conservancy
- Loggerhead Shrike Working Group
- TN Bluebird Society
- VA Bluebird Society
- NC Bluebird Society