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  • Birding With Your Phone program recording
    Did you miss the program on March 4? Well, you’re in luck!  Ken Elkins recorded his presentation and it’s available for you to watch.  He did his usual wonderful job going over so many ways you can enhance your birdwatching with apps on your phone. Link Passcode: J$u50yMG
  • New England Shorebird Guide
     New England Shorebird Guide, a photographic guide freely available on the Bird Observer site, now covers 28 species of shorebirds: https://www.birdobserver.org/Better-Birding/New-England-Shorebird-Guide.
  • Feather Atlas
    Feather Atlas Edit Welcome to the Feather Atlas! Now with enhanced identification tools and mobile optimization! THE FEATHER ATLAS is an image database dedicated to the identification and study of the flight feathers of North American birds. The feathers illustrated are from the curated collection of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory. © 2024… Read more: Feather Atlas
  • Birds and Birding
    Birds and Birding Bird Clubs, Organization and Birding Forums Connecticut Bird List Archives New Haven Bird Club Connecticut Ornithological Association Connecticut Audubon Wood Memorial Library Massachusetts Audubon New Jersey Audubon / Cape May Birding Bird Identification Cornell Lab – All About Birds Hawk Migration Association of North America WhatBird.Com Identifying Bird Sounds/Calls  www.aaastateofplay.com/50-bird-species-sounds-they-make/ Bird and Wildlife… Read more: Birds and Birding
  • Gardenscaping For Birds
    Gardenscaping for Birds Connecticut Native Plants to Attract Native Birds Click here to access and utilize a comprehensive website for native plants: https://www.audubon.org/plantsforbirds Northern Arrowwood (viburnum dentatum): Blue-headed vireo Highbush Blueberry (vaccinum corymbosum): Eastern Bluebird Lowbush Blueberry (vaccinium angustifium): Eastern Towhee Eastern Red Cedar (juniperus virginiana): Yellow-rumped warbler Red Chokeberry (aronia arbutiolia): Brown Thrasher Flowering Dogwood (cornus florida): Baltimore Oriole, Swainson’s… Read more: Gardenscaping For Birds
  • Help Chimney Swifts
    Help Chimney Swifts
  • Lights Out Connecticut
    Lights Out Connecticut
  • Birding Hotspots in Connecticut
    Birding Hotspots in Connecticut The following locations are consistently good birding spots. The variety and number of bird sightings may vary by season, but each offers its own special experience. There are many other productive sites in Connecticut. The books cited at the bottom of this page provide a rich source for planning birding outings.
  • Birding 101
    This is a video made by HAS member Chris Fisher. It’s based on a program he used to give live. He decided that with a little modification it could be useful as a video for both beginning birders and people who have watched birds, but who want to move a little farther into the how… Read more: Birding 101
  • Becoming A Better Birder through Photography – by Chris Fisher
    One way of becoming a better birder is to photograph birds.  It helps you to identify unfamiliar birds, maybe even a rarity, and it also results in your paying more attention to the beautiful details on many of our feathered friends.  Doug Beach, editor of the Crest, asked if I might be willing to write… Read more: Becoming A Better Birder through Photography – by Chris Fisher