- List of Alberta Birding Hotspots
- Atlas of Alberta Lakes - "prairie potholes" a.k.a. North America's duck factories!
- Official List of the Birds of Alberta - and other resources at Royal Alberta Museum
- Nature Calgary Birding homepage - links to many resources and regional species locations
- Google Map of Calgary birding locations
- Important Bird Areas of Alberta - detailed descriptions for each location
- Albertabird - Yahoo group with rare bird alerts and general provincially related birding discussion
- BirdsCalgary - Unsurprisingly, I am not the only blogging birder in Calgary
- Bird Canada - ...and there are more!
- Prairie Birder - and more!
- www.canadianbirdphotography.ca - a great showcase of Canadian photographers and their work.
10 Great Birding Blogs Beyond Alberta
- 10,000 Birds - different writers on a variety of international topics
- Aimophila Adventures - great pictures and some good ID tips
- American Birding Association Blog - Lots of great content on conservation issues as well as a mix of identification and phylogeny issues.
- Biological Ramblings
- Birder's Library - A wonderful collection of book reviews. Even when you can't be birding there are so many great inspirational reads.
- BirdTrekkerBC - journal of a West Vancouver based birder
- Punctuated Equilibrium - Not just birds and bird book reviews but also an interesting mix of science related commentary.
- Redgannet - a UK based birder who has the good fortune to work for an airline and consequently sees a lot of very cool birds (and takes lots of pictures!)
- Russell Canning's Blog - In 2010 Russell set a record for most birds seen in BC in one year. That blog is here. He is also the son of Dick Cannings who knows a great deal about BC birds and wrote this great book which I recently finished. Dick also has a website. Wow, that was a lot of links! Anyway, thanks for all the inspiration guys!
- Sibley Guides - Fantastic discussion around, you guessed it, bird identification
- Bonus nature related blog - Myrmecos - because ants are also very cool and this guy takes amazing photos of them.
