For the Birds

The IBC (Internet Bird Collection) is the first place to go to identify an unknown bird or find out more information on the species you do know. It is a non-profit endeavour with the ultimate goal of disseminating knowledge about the world's birds. It is an on-line audiovisual library of the world's birds that is available to the general public free of charge. While the initial aim is to post at least one video or photo per species, the long-term objective is to eventually include material showing a variety of biological aspects (e.g. feeding, breeding, etc.) for every species.

There are photographs of more than 6,000 of the world's 9863 known species, with more being added daily. there are 38883 videos, 17862 photos, and 3676 recordings. There are 6422 species with videos (65.11%), 6486 species with photos (65.76%), 2779 species with sounds (28.18%), 78.7% of all the known species are covered.

The U.S. National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory's Feather Atlas Website is the place to visit when you want to identify a bird by just a wing or tail feather. The contents of the site are designed to assist feather identification by providing high-resolution scans of flight feathers of major groups of North American birds.

The Royal Alberta Museum has the best online collection of wild bird eggs that I have found, but requires you to make an educated guess as to the species -- songbird, woodpecker, owl, etc -- before you get to the data and photos.

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