Bird Observatories, USA & Canada

If you have information about a bird observatory not listed below, or any corrections to the details shown here, please contact: Robert.Curry@villanova.edu.

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United States

AK | AL | AR | AZ |  CA | CO | CT | DE | FL | GA |  HI | IA | ID | IL | IN | KS | KY | LA
MA | MD | ME | MI | MN | MO | MS | MT | NC | ND | NE | NH |  NJ | NM | NV | NY | OH
OK | OR | PA | RI | SC |  SD | TN | TX | UT | VA | VT | WA | WI | WV | WY

Canadian Provinces & Territories

Alberta | B.C. | Manitoba | New Bruns. | Nfld. & Lab. | NWT | Nova Scotia
Nunavut | Ontario | PEI | Sask. | Quebec  |  Yukon

United States

Alabama

• Hummer/Bird Study Group

Alaska

• Alaska Bird Observatory
• Alaska Raptor Center

Arizona

• Southeast Arizona Bird Observatory

Arkansas

California

• Audubon California, Starr Ranch Bird Observatory
• Big Sur Ornithology Lab, operated by the Ventana Wilderness Society
• Coyote Creek Riparian Station ~ a unit of the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
• Golden Gate Raptor Observatory
• Point Reyes Bird Observatory
• San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

Colorado

• Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory

• Pelican Harbor Seabird Station (rehab.)
• Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary (rehab.)

Hawaii

• Idaho Bird Observatory

• Chicagoland Bird Observatory

  E-mail: dsdecourcey@aol.com or ggabanski@attbi.com

• Chipper Woods Bird Observatory

Massachusetts

• Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
• Massachusetts Audubon Society

• Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

• Rouge River Bird Observatory

• Whitefish Point Bird Observatory

• Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory

• Great Basin Bird Observatory

• Cape May Bird Observatory
• Sandy Hook Bird Observatory
• Scherman-Hoffman Sanctuaries (Bernardsville, NJ)

New Mexico

• Braddock Bay Bird Observatory
• Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

• Derby Hill Bird Observatory, Onondaga Audubon Society

• Black Swamp Bird Observatory

• Sutton Avian Research Center

• Klamath Bird Observatory

• Hawk Mountain Sanctuary

South Dakota

• Gulf Coast Bird Observatory

• Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory, near Austin, Texas

• Rio Grande Valley Bird Observatory

• HawkWatch International (organization covers migration observatories and banding stations in several states)

• Vermont Raptor Center / Vermont Institute of Natural Science

• Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory

• Biocore Prairie Bird Observatory (Madison)

Canadian Provinces & Territories

Alberta

• Beaverhill Bird Observatory

• Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory

• Rocky Point Bird Observatory

• Delta Marsh Bird Observatory

• Atlantic Bird Observatory

Ontario

• Long Point Bird Observatory

• Thunder Cape Bird Observatory

• Haldimand Bird Observatory

• McGill Bird Observatory

• Observatoire d'oiseaux de Tadoussac

For more information about Canadian ornithological societies, bird clubs, and observatories, see also Birding in Canada: Canadian Bird Observatories  (as of 18 Feb. 1999).

• Bird Source

• BirdCast

• The Canadian Migration Monitoring Network

• Bird Banding Laboratory

• North American Banding Council

• Other Banding Sites