• Turn your yard into good habitat for birds.  See Enhancing Your Backyard for Wildlife, Great Backyard Bird Count and All About Birds for suggestions.
• Put up a bird feeder or suet cage.  You can have children make their own bird feeder - e.g., out of a pinecone.
• Install a bird bath.
• Install and monitor nestboxes for bluebirds, owls and other cavity-nesters.
• Keep binoculars and a field guide handy near windows at home.
• Go on a family bird-watching outing.  Make it a regular event.
• Take turns picking a "bird of the week" and learn more about it by checking a bird book (e.g.,Sibley Guide to Bird) or online guide.
• Keep a yearly list of birds that visit your yard.  How many birds have you seen from the list to the right (recorded on the Conn-005 Woodstock Route during the North American Breeding Bird Survey)? Click on  any linked bird name for ID tips, songs, photos and more.
• Become a citizen scientist by participating in programs like Project FeederWatch.

• Birding websites, with descriptions
• Audubon Christmas Bird Count
• Audubon Bird Conservation
• Backyard Feeder Makes Science Fun (article from Mothering Magazine)
• Birds of the Quiet Corner - field checklist of birds of Northeastern Connecticut by Bird Conservation Research, Inc.
• Birds--what to feed them, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Bluebirds: Basics, attracting, dealing with house sparrows, suet recipes.
• Connecticut Audubon Society sanctuaries
• Connecticut Ornithological Association (with lots of links)
• Cornell online bird guide
• eNature online guide
• Enhancing your backyard for wildlife - tips
• Feeding: Audubon article on types of feeders and feed
• Guides: eNature online field guides
• Guide: Online guide to adult birds, where you enter location and whatever info you have (like color) and it shows you photos
• Great Backyard Bird Count - help create a snapshot of winter bird populations - free)
• Hummingbird maps - time of arrival to CT
• National Audubon Society
• Native Tree and Shrub Availability List for CT with list of nurseries, CTDEP
• Nestbox reference chart - Cornell
• North American Breeding Bird Survey Results and Analysis
• North American Colonial Waterbird Conservation Plan
• Partners in Flight
• Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter, USGS
• Plans (free) or nestboxes, free downloadable bird coloring book from 50 Birds
• Project FeederWatch (count birds at your feeders for science - fee)
• Urban Bird Studies (study doves, crows, gulls and other city birds - free)
• Window strikes, preventing

Wisconsin Society for Ornithology Audio Library

Bird Songs of New York

Naturesongs Western US Bird Recordings

Enature Bird Songs

Mango Verde World Bird Guide

Western Paleartic Bird Song Index

A2Z4 Birders Guide

Patuxent Quiz

Yahoo! Groups Naturerecordists

Flight Calls

Bird Research in Bioacoustics

Other Bird Song Links

Some Birds in the Quiet Corner - Click here for complete checklist