Web Sites of Interest To Canadian Birders

My name is Brian Ratcliff and I am coordinator of the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists Project Peregrine. Since 1989, our club has hacked 89 young peregrines back to the cliffs of Lake Superior and more recently have been monitoring about a dozen nests. Four years ago we implemented a banding program and todate 90 young peregrines have been banded at this cliff sites.

Every five years there is a National Survey to monitor peregrine falcon populations and 2000 is the next survey year. I have been asked by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to help organize the provincial survey and spread the word. Check out the information on the 2000 survey. Our goal is to get as many people as possible out checking cliff sites and highrises for signs of peregrine activity.

If you prefer, you can download the MS Word document and print or view it at your leisure. If you require any additonal information, please email me or call 807-768-8408

Thank you

Brian Ratcliff

• Richard Danca's reviews of birding software packages Presently, the list includes Richard Danca's compilation on listing software
• Laurie Larson's home page Index to Winging It, 1989-1993
  Byron Butler's bibliography on the history of ornithology
  Alice Rasa's bibliography on birding and ecotourism
  And More ..
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• Eagle-Eye Tours Inc. Canadian and International Birding Tours - based from British Columbia
  email address : birdtours@eagle-eye.com

• Turaco Nature Inc International Birding Tours - based from Toronto Ontario
  email address : Scott Connop

• The City of Toronto: Toronto Transit Commission

  Very useful website !
  Whether you are resident or visitor trying to find your way in Toronto Ontario
  This is where you will find directions

• Wild World Birding and Nature Tours
  

  Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Wild World Birding and Nature Tours is Western Canada’s specialist in nature tours to the world’s best birdwatching spots. They cater to all levels of Birdwatchers from the beginners who just enjoy the world’s natural beauty to the fanatic twitcher.

  For additional information please contact Joe Crichton - or visit the website.

• Bird Studies Canada - NEW URL !!!

Bird Studies Canada (BSC), established under the auspices of Long Point Bird Observatory (LPBO), conducts and promotes studies on avian distribution, abundance and population changes and their underlying causes; communicates the results to the public; and generates information in support of the conservation of Canadian birds and their habitats.

• Great Lakes CD ROM - Environment Canada

  The Canadian Federal Government has just released a CD-ROM on the Great Lakes. This CD-ROM is hybrid and has connections to the internet. I am pleased to announce that they have chosen the Ontario Birding Hotspots website as one of the interesting ones that can be connected directly from the CD-ROM.

  DISCOVER THE GREAT LAKES ON CD ROM.

  Facts and figures on ecosystems. human activities, toxic chemicals, endangered species, sustainabiliy, climate change... nearly any environmental topic relating to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region is now available on a single CD-ROM. This multimedia product complements and enhances the State of Canada's Environment Report. Designed for Ontario high schools, community colleges and university educators, students and parents, the CD-ROM contains 3,000 hyperlinks enabling the user to interact with hundreds of pages of text, maps, photographs, videos, graphics and even bird calls and frog sounds. Internect connectvitiy to about 50 environmental sites supplements the content.

  For more information see:
  http:www.cciw.ca/glimr/great-lakes-cd-rom/intro.html

  Annual updates will be available thorugh a website.

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• DeLorme Maps

• Thayer Birding Software

  'Birds of North America', by Thayer Birding Software, has received the official endorsement and recommendation of the American Birding Association ! It is the only birding CD-ROM to ever have received this honor. Thayer Software is a publisher of various other birding related software products including Charles Sibley's Birds of the World.

  Greg Gallant's Gallery

  Greg Gallant, my twin brother who lives in Cape Breton Nova Scotia, has put together a revised online art gallery. Greg shares my love for nature, and demonstrates it in his superb paintings. His son Derek has done an excellent job of creating this website for Greg, and they should both be proud of it.

• Sibley and Monroe World List

• Merlin Species Watcher



Please visit my site for free species lists. These include 3 world lists that correspond to the Scientific and Common names found in Dr. Charles Sibley's electronic book, "Birds of the World 2". Two of these lists have Alternate Common Names one in German and the other in Katakana (Japanese). There are also many geographical subsets of the World list (again corresponding to Dr. Sibley's text) with alternate names in several languages. All the lists are in .dbf format. There is also a world mammal list, again free of charge. To download go to:

http://www.ccinet.ab.ca/merlin/

and click on Merlin Species Watcher Databases.

Thanks,

Ian Patton
ipatton@ccinet.ab.ca
Edmonton AB
Canada

VIREO, Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia vireo@say.acnatsci.org

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