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I hope you've enjoyed earning your Bird Study Merit Badge. Birding is a great life-long hobby that combines outdoor skills,
intelligence and detective work. It can be done anywhere at very little cost.
If you'd like to learn more, consider the following books as well as visiting your local nature center or Audubon Society:
For expanding your birding skills, the book "Pete Dunne on Bird Watching" is highly recommended. Pete is one of
the best at teaching new birders and this book has all of the tips you need to learn more.
Good Birding!
Online Tools
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology eBird Website is the place for birders on
the internet.
You can learn what birds are being seen in your area, help you identify a puzzling bird, and find local "hotspots" With your
parents permission, you can even create an account where you can report what you've seen to help scientists learn more about
birds.
And with your parents permission, their free smart phone apps of "eBird" and "Merlin Bird ID" let you search and record things
in the field.
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology eBird Website.
www.americanbirding.org -- The ABA has special programs, scholarships and programs for young birders.
Contact Me
Finally, a note of thanks to the American Birding Association for the use of their pictures of young birders. Check out
their website for special programs for young birders. Also, thanks to enature.com for the web pictures of birds from
the Audubon field guide series. They're a great resource for learning more about nature.
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