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Birding Sites:

  • Check out local birding hot spots

  • Build a Bond with Birds with Cornell Lab of Ornithology's NestWatch program, a nation-wide, volunteer-based effort to collect information on the breeding biology of North America ’s birds. Read what NestWatch project leader Jason Martin says about the program here.

Bird Sightings:

If you have ever wondered who you can tell about an unusual bird you have seen or want keep track of the birds you see regularly, there are a number of sites that can help.
  • You can report bird sightings to a list serve maintained by the Virginia Society of Ornithology. To sign up, go to  http://mailman.listserve.com/listmanager/listinfo/va-bird. The Virginia Society of Ornithology keeps records for the entire state.
  • You can also use The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird database. The Virginia section, which has information specific to the Commonwealth, can be found here http://ebird.org/content/va.
  • If you want to report a banded bird, you can do so at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center's North American Bird Banding Program here http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/.

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