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Featured Bird:
Common Redpoll  (Carduelis flammea)
Common Redpoll by Jerry Liguori   Range Map
  Sound (205 KB) 
  Description
  Habitat
  Nesting & Feeding
  World Range
 

Images and sounds courtesy of Thayer's Birds of North  America CD-ROM and Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Featured Products - December, 2000
Just In Time For The Holidays

See the Birds...Hear Their Songs! (for Windows PCs)
Thayer's Birds of North America
By Peter W. Thayer
Your Price $70.00
The #1 rated birding CD-ROM covers all 925 species ever seen in the U.S. and Canada. Includes 250 quizzes, 121 video clips, almost 700 songs and 3,100 color photos.   Make your own quizzes and screen savers. Identify birds by entering color, size, habitat, song. Includes The Birder's Handbook, by Paul Ehrlich, in electronic format. View species Side-by-side.
User Reviews
Magazine Reviews		 A perfect Christmas gift for the new birder!
Focus Guide to the Birds of North America
By Kenn Kaufman
Retail $20.00   
Your Price $16.00
This new field guide is ideal for beginning birders! Kenn Kaufman's groundbreaking work digitally enhances photographic images to show the characteristics that are sometimes not apparent in photographs. The guide is organized by bird family groupings rather than taxonomic classification.
Sample Pages:  1   2   3
Interview with Kenn		 The BEST North American Field Guide

Sibley Guide to Birds
By David A. Sibley
Retail $35.00  
Your Price $28.00
The Sibley Guide to Birds provides a wealth of new information: - Captioned illustrations show many previously unpublished field marks and revisions of known marks. Sibley's beautifully detailed illustrations -- more than 6,600 in all -- and descriptions of 810 species and 350 regional populations will enrich every birder's experience.
Sample Pages:  1   2

Featured State/Province:
Missouri

Prairie State Park
Grassland birds of the prairie are the specialty here. Look for Upland Sandpipers, Henslow's Sparrows and Dickcissel. With luck you may even spot a Greater Prairie-Chicken. In winter watch for Short-eared Owls.

St. Louis
Eurasian Tree Sparrows are established breeders here and across the Mississippi River in parks and farmland of western Illinois. Otherwise, go to Europe to see them. Check the Riverlands Environmental Demonstration Area north of town for wintering gulls.

Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge
The 10 mile drive lets you view ponds and fields from the comfort of your car. Spring and fall migration are busy times with more Snow Geese here than you knew existed!

Featured Hot Spot:
Niagara Falls
43.08 N   79.07 W
Winter gulls are the attraction here. Rarities are always showing up each winter. Between the falls and Fort Niagara State Park on Lake Ontario you will see thousands of gulls! When finished, cross the river and start building up your Canada list!
Niagra Area Birding    Hot Spots    Gulls    New York Birding

Baltimore Oriole Surprise Web Sites Wood Thrush
Surprise #133: Christmas Bird Counts
Surprise #134: Birding in Jordan
Surprise #135: Asa Wright Nature Center
Surprise #136: Classroom FeederWatch
Surprise #137: Les Oiseaux du Quebec
Surprise #138: Worldtwitch
(Surprise Web Sites #1-132)

Incredible Birding Web Site of the Month !!
December, 2000
Virtual Birder

The 25 Best Birding Web Sites
Awarded "4 Wings Up" by Siskin & Egret