New Digital Resources: Birds of North America
Produced by the renowned Cornell Ornithological Laboratory, Birds of North America is an online database of all known species of birds found in Canada and the United States. It updates the multivolume print set that was a classic in the field.
The BNA website states that: "Now as an online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, BNA is poised to become a living resource. Account contents are updated frequently, with online-coordinated contributions from researchers, citizen scientists, and designated reviewers and editors. In addition, BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. And each online species account contains recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds."
Listen to the call of our State Bird, the California Quail (Callipepla californica.)
Find out the latest information on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilis principalis) -- thought to be extinct until rediscovered in April 2005!
From abundance to extinction, Birds of North America offers the sad story of the Passenger Pigeon (Ecyopistes migratorius.)
Access to this resource is possible from off campus. Click on Connect from Home for details.
Lizbeth Langston, Head-Science Information Services & Geetha Yapa, Science Reference Librarian
