This is a list of internet links to other sites related to bird migration (last updated July 2002).  Please let us know of any other interesting sites!

 

 

●   The African Bird Club publishes the Bulletin of the African Bird Club that reports on sightings of migratory birds in Africa.  Many of these reports can also be found on their webpage:

 

http://www.africanbirdclub.org/

 

●   The African-Eurasian Migratory (Waterbird) Agreement is the largest agreement developed so far under the Convention of Migratory Species (CMS) and came into force on 1 November 1999.  The webpage gives an overview of this agreement and previous treaties to protect migratory species:

 

http://www.unep-aewa.org/meetings/en/mop/mop3_docs/daily_coverage/day1_mop3_23oct_coverage.htm

 

●   The Avian Demography Unit at the University of Capetown, South Africa, published a bird atlas for South Africa (Harrison J. A., Allan D. G., Underhill L. G., Herremans M., Tree A. J., Parker V., Brown C. J. eds. 1997. The atlas of southern African birds. Vols. 1-2.  BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa) and regularly puts sightings of migratory birds on its webpage.  It also has links to other sites on its webpage, including a link to SAFRING, the South African Bird Ringing Unit:

 

http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/

 

●   The Bird Migration Group at the Department of Animal Ecology at the University of Lund in Sweden works on various scientific aspects of bird migration:

 

http://orn-lab.ekol.lu.se/birdmigration/

 

●   The Common Swift (Apus apus) website is dedicated to tracking the migration of the common swift:

 

http://www.commonswift.org/

 

●   The Convention on Migratory Species website lists all the participating parties, has pdf-files of convention texts, proceedings, recommendations and resolutions from meetings, its own bulletin, and other news:

 

http://www.cms.int/

 

●   EURING, the European Union for Bird Ringing, is found on:

 

http://www.euring.org/

   

●   The Global Register of Migratory Species (GROMS) contains interactive maps of migrating species, pdf-files of several publications and links to purchase the book on the topic: Riede K. 2001. The Global Register of Migratory Species – database, GIS maps and threat analysis. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster, Germany:

 

http://www.groms.de/

 

●   The Institut für Vogelforschung "Vogelwarte Helgoland" has a webpage in German that reports on the ringing work done at the institute and some of the results from that work:

 

http://www.fh-oow.de/cms/ifv/

 

●   Journey North, a Global Study of Wildlife Migration, is a programme in which North American students participate in observing migration across the North American continent:

 

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

 

●   The Max-Planck-Research-Centre for Ornithology investigates neural and endocrine mechanisms of migration and how they relate to temporal patterns and decision-making processes, e.g. the decision of a bird to migrate or to stop-over.  Problems of spatial orientation, of energetics and water balance, organ flexibility, and general migration strategies are also investigated:

 

http://erl.ornithol.mpg.de/

 

●   Migrating Birds Know No Boundaries is a site maintained by the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration of the Israel Ornithological Center.  The site reports on the study of bird migration in Israel, one of the hotspots of global migration.  It also shows the flight tracks of individual birds with satellite transmitters:

 

http://www.birds.org.il/show_item.asp?levelId=457

 

●   Migration Watch is a site maintained by the British Trust of Ornithology that tracks the progress of migrants through Britain and Ireland:

 

http://www.bto.org/migwatch/index.htm

 

●   The programmme Optimality in Bird Migration is another EU-funded research programme that combines the efforts of more than a dozen research groups across Europe working on migration and its mechanisms and regulatory processes:

 

http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&activity=1&domain=3&article=92&page=324

 

●   Other internet sources:

 

(1)  The text of Global Overview of Arctic Migratory Breeding Birds Outside the Arctic by D. A. Scott can be found by typing this title into any search engine, e.g.

 

http://www.google.com/