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Page Navigation: Milwaukee Wisconsin Conservation Lake Park Info

Blogs:

Birding Activities in Milwaukee Area:

Birds of Lake Park - http://home.wi.rr.com/phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html
Urban Ecology Center - Thursday Morning Birdwalks - 8 am, at Riverside Park
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center - Bird Club, second Wednesdays
Riveredge Nature Center - Bird Club - 7 pm - first Tuesdays
Wehr Nature Center - Wehr Birders - One Saturday per month
Hoy Audubon Society in Racine County.
Havenwoods State Forest - Checklist
Enderis Park Bird Watching Club, http://www.birdwatchusa.com/
Wehr Birders, Monthly Bird Hike<>
<>Racine, Hoy Audubon, Weekly (Thurs or Wed), http://www.hoyaudubon.org/
Waukesha County, Benjamin F. Goss Bird Club, http://www.gossbirdclub.org

Birding Activities in Wisconsin:

Recent Bird Sightings in Wisconsin :

http://www.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/WISC.html
Wis Bird Net - http://www.wsobirds.org/wso_birding_news.html

SE Wisconsin Events

Wisconsin Society for Ornithology http://www.wsobirds.org/-

WSO Field Trips - http://www.wsobirds.org/wso_dates.html

Bird Conservation:
Wisconsin Night Guardians for Songbirds
American Bird Conservancy
North American Bird Conservation Initiative
Wisconsin Bird Conservation Initiative

Avian Flu Facts: http://home.wi.rr.com/phunter1/H5N1birds.html
Birds vs. Cats:

Wisc Bird Conservation Initiative's Position Statement
Wildlife Society's Position Statement
Cats Indoors! brochure from American Bird Conservancy
IMPACTS of FERAL and FREE-RANGING CATS on Bird Species of Conservation Concern

from American Bird Conservancy

Bird Conservationist:

Bill Mueller http://home.earthlink.net/~iltlawas/index.html

http://www.wisconsinbirds.org/IssuesPapers.htm

Preventing Birds from Colliding into Windows:

http://home.wi.rr.com/phunter1/birdwindowcollision.html

Nocturnal Songbird Migration, Observing via Radar:

http://home.wi.rr.com/phunter1/lakeparkbirdradar.html

Checklist of Milwaukee County birds seen in parks on the "Oak Leaf Birding Trail".

http://www.county.milwaukee.gov/router.asp?docid=10382

Songs of birds that birds that breed in Wisconsin

http://www.uwgb.edu/birds/wbba/speciesaudios.htm

Photos of birds that birds that breed in Wisconsin

http://www.uwgb.edu/birds/wbba/speciesimages.htm

Other Conservation:

Sierra Club, Great Waters Group
Hartford Ave Elementary School

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/dec05/376813.asp

Lake Park Info:

Lake Park Friends http://www.lakeparkfriends.org
North Point Lighthouse http://www.northpointlighthouse.org/
Lake Park Bistro (restaurant) http://www.jsonline.com/dd/dinmil/lakeparkbistro.asp
Old postcard photos

REFERENCE BOOKS AND WEBSITES: [advice from Bill Mueller fall 2004]

Textbook "Ornithology", by Fran Gill, revised 1994. That still makes it fairly up-to-date.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0716724154/qid=1114152967/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-0526570-3675124?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

"Manual of Ornithology : Avian Structure and Function" by Noble Proctor
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300076193/ref=pd_sim_b_1/104-0526570-3675124?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

life-history information
   Bonaparte's Gull as an example: http://wildspace.ec.gc.ca/life.cfm?ID=BOGU&Lang=e
   NatureServe. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?init=Species
   SORA, the Searchable Ornithological Research Archive, at http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/
   Bent's Life Histories of N American Birds, old but still useful , many of which are online now
http://www.birdzilla.com/sub.asp?strType=omnibus_intro&strTitle=Birdzilla:+Wild+Bird+Omnibus