Central Massachusetts Bird Update

This compilation contains daily updated bird sightings from central Massachusetts, mostly Worcester County. To contribute a sighting, you can email to rsquimby@wpi.edu (text format preferred). This is not intended as a bird discussion forum, so please confine your submissions to recent bird sightings that will be of interest to Worcester County birders. Material posted on this web site may not be republished in any format without the permission of the author(s).

Other birding links of interest:

• Worcester County
  • ebird sightings in Worcester County
  • ebird hotspots in Worcester County
  • Forbush Bird Club Web Site
  • Forbush Bird Club Calendar
  • Forbush Bird Club Facebook Page
  • Birds of Institute Park (Worcester, MA)
  • Birds of Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Worcester County Checklists
  • Places to Bird
  • Extended trip report narratives
  • Ware River Nature Club
  • Auburn Bird Banding Station
  • The Bird Store and More: (Sturbridge, MA, proprietors Bill and Nancy Cormier)
• Massachusetts
  • Official Massachusetts State Bird List [Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC) ]
  • Massachusetts Birding (Nice index of birding info for Massachusetts)
  • Massbird Archive
  • Weekly bird summary from Massachusetts Audubon Society
  • Mass Audubon's Breeding Bird Atlas
  • Brookline Bird Club
  • Hampshire Bird Club
  • Bird Observer
  • Water Supply Protection Gull Study
• New England
  • Migration Productions: Shawn Carey and team produce high quality audio-visual media about birds, bird watchers, and other natural history topics
  • Alexander Dunn's "The Daily Bird New England" -- short single-species articles throughout the year
  • NorthEast Hawk Watch (NEHW)
  • NorthEast Connecticut Kestrel Project
  • Rhode Island bird sightings (yahoo group)
  • New England Hummingbird Project
  • Nature of New England -- Beth Engleton's nature information center
  • Radar monitoring of bird migration
• National
  • USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center | ( Bird ID info)
  • Cornell Lab Bird Guide
  • Ernie Jardine's bird song identification
  • Birds of North America Online (subscription required)
  • Virtual Birder
  • Birding on the Net
  • eBird: National bird sighting database (submit via internet)
  • Barry Van Dusen Bird Paintings