BALTIMORE BIRD CLUB

Baltimore Bird Club Information

• Come on along! Here's the 2008-09 Schedule of Club activities.
• The October/November 2008 issue of CHIP NOTES, the BBC's newsletter.
• CHIP NOTES Back Issues:
  | Aug 2008
  | Feb 2008 | Apr 2008
  | Aug 2005 | Oct 2005 | Dec 2005 | Feb 2006 | Apr 2006
  | Aug 2004 | Oct 2004 | Dec 2004 | Feb 2005 | Apr 2005
  | Aug 2003 | Oct 2003 | Dec 2003 | Feb 2004 | Apr 2004
  | Aug 2002 | Oct 2002 | Dec 2002 | Feb 2003 | Apr 2003
  | Aug 2001 | Oct 2001 | Dec 2001 | Feb 2002 | Apr 2002
  | Aug 2000 | Oct 2000 | Dec 2000 | Feb 2001 | Apr 2001
  | Aug 1999 | Oct 1999 | Dec 1999 | Feb 2000 | Apr 2000
  | Aug 1998 | Oct 1998 | Dec 1998 | Feb 1999 | Apr 1999
  | Aug 1997 | Oct 1997 | Dec 1997 | Feb 1998 | Apr 1998
  | Aug 1996 | Oct 1996 | Dec 1996 | Feb 1997 | Apr 1997
  | Aug 1995 | Oct 1995 | Dec 1995 | Feb 1996 | Apr 1996

• Indexes for every online issue of Chip Notes, from August 1995 through the current issue:
  • Contents of each issue
  • Index by Authors
  • Index by Titles
• Learn more about the Baltimore Bird Club
• View or print out a membership application in html or pdf format.
• Baltimore Bird Club Field Trip Leader Guidelines
• The BBC Field Trip Report form
• The BBC has published a Birder's Guide to Baltimore.
• See descriptions from the Guide for two favorite Baltimore sites:
  • Lake Roland
  • Cylburn Arboretum
• A checklist of Baltimore Birds
• The BBC also maintains the Backyard Birding page.
• Stay abreast of plans for the environmental restoration of the South Cell of Hart-Miller Island, Maryland's premiere shorebird site.
• See photos of some BBC members at Cylburn Mansion.

Maryland and the Region

• The Home Page of the Maryland Ornithological Society
  • The Allegany & Garrett Counties' Bird Club, a Chapter of MOS
  • The Cecil Bird Club, an MOS chapter.
  • The Frederick Bird Club, an MOS chapter.
  • The Harford Bird Club, an MOS chapter.
  • The Howard County Bird Club, a Chapter of MOS
  • The Kent County Chapter of MOS
  • The Montgomery County Chapter of MOS
• From the only Maryland county on the ocean: the Worcester County Birding page.
• The home page of the Audubon Naturalist Society
• The Home Page of the Potomac Valley Audubon Society
• Birds of North Point State Park in Baltimore County.
• The Oregon Ridge Nature Center, in Baltimore County.
• A list of Maryland Birds
• The state's guide to Maryland Parks, Forests, and WMAs
• Sam Droege's essay "Maryland, Efficiency, and Birds" surveys the changes in Maryland's birdlife over the past 400 years.
• GORP's pages for Blackwater and Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuges
• The C&O Canal Page
• Register your own back yard with the Maryland Ornithological Society as a Wildlife Sanctuary
• The home page of the Northern Virgina Bird Club
• The Virginia Society of Ornithology
• Maurice Barnhill's indispensable guide to Delaware birding locations.
• From Maryland's neighbor to the north: the Pennsylvania Virtual Birding Site
• Every Fall, hawk watchers migrate to Hawk Mountain Sanctuary

What Are Birders Talking About?

• Here are the archives of birding lists (discussion groups that communicate by email):
  • Maryland Osprey
  • Virginia
  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
  • BirdChat (USA)
• Read the latest submissions to Rec.Birds and UK.Rec.Birdwatching

What Else Is Out There?

• Some Megasites (chock full o' birding links)
  • from the United States:
    • Dan Victor's Cascadia;
    • Noel Wamer's Cyber Birding;
    • Geographical Birding Guide, originally developed by Ignaz Wanders.
  • from Canada:
    • Denis Lepage's Birdlinks to the World; and
    • Chris Majka's Electronic Resources on Ornithology
  • from Europe:
    • Willem-Per Vellinga's Birdlinks
    • Tor Ivar Bjønness's Birdbase
• Find out how to attract birds to your yard and keep them coming back on the Backyard Birding Page
• There's almost too much information about American birds at the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center -- it's not just for high plains birders.
• The Birds! page of the National Biological Survey (NBS)
• Birds, Birds, Birds -- from the Office of Migratory Bird Management
• Birds of the Continental US and Canada
• A list of the Birds of Mexico (Spanish, Latin, and English names)
• Great starting points for bird Sights and Sounds

Bird Fun and Games

• What is the name for a flock of ravens or teal or pheasants? Check the List of Group Names.
• See a list of Whimsical Group Names and send your creations to the list.
• Test your birding skills by taking the Patuxent Bird Quiz
• Virtual flocks are featured on Craig Reynolds's Boids page.

Enough with the Birds, Already

Who Dealt This Mess?