Birding Resources - Snake River Audubon Society of Eastern Idaho

Birding Websites:

IBLE (Idaho Birders Linked Electronically) provides information on bird sightings throughout Idaho. To subscribe, send a blank message to Idaho Birders

Idaho Bird net is a comprehensive online resource for birds and birding in Idaho.

Birding on the network offers information on birding in all parts of the country. From the home page, go to "Regional/Specialty" under "Mailing Lists" to read current birding reports.

All About Birds is a website sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and provides information on bird species and birding skills.

New, November 2016, tip from a friend: Trip Buzz: The Ultimate Guide to Birdwatching. Great resources and information for trip planning. Thanks Phoebe!

Birding for Kids Website:

Here's a website some young birdwatching friends in Texas told us about: It's called "Bump Reveal" and is a "Birding for Kids Resource Guide. This link will take you directly to that page: Birding for Kids! There's lots of information there, tailored to the next generation of bird enthusiasts.

Other Birding Resources

Books:

Buteo Books:

2731 Arrington Rd., Arrington, VA 22922. Web link: Buteo Books. A great resource for serious birders and ornithologists. Check out the new listing, "The Black Swift in Idaho, and Biography of Earl J Larrison," By JW Weber, a local Idaho naturalist.

Heart warming online stuff:

For a beautiful heart warming and wrenching image of the sagebrush we and our beloved sage grouse live in, find "The Sagebrush Sea", on line, which aired on Idaho Public TV in 2015. Here's a link: The Sagebrush-Sea on PBS. Make sure you have your ears on; the sound track is as spectacular as the visuals. This film is a game changer.

And here is a link to an exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum titled "The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art". Click on, "View the online gallery" to take a virtual tour. Truly excellent.

Birds in Art at the Smithsonian Museum.

Apps:

Kea: Learn birds through play. A learning tool being developed to learn birds through games. Available from the App Store. They're hoping to make this a globally applicable birding tool.

Downloadable files:

Here is brief description of downloadable files listed in the table below:

If you are a newbee, below is a down-loadable copy of our Snake River Audubon monthly Newsletter "03-19 newsletter.pdf" for this month. For $10 we'll send it to you direct hot off the press, and the dough would help us a lot. Information on how to join SRAS and/or NAS is on the back page of the Newsletter.

Christmas Bird Counts from Idaho Falls and Howe, ID, December, 2018, files listed as "Bird List IF CBC-2018.pdf.pdf" and "Howe, ID CBC 2018 pdf.pdf" .

International Migratory Bird Day Market Lake festivities May 19, 2016, flyer is below, "2017 IMBD flier.pdf." Come join the fun and have a burger.

2018 Island Park Raptor ID trip with Steve Hoffman.

The file "IDIF.jpg" below is a screen shot of a Google Earth view of the Idaho Falls Christmas Count circle.

The Texas Slough Swan Safe Power Line Project (pdf) contains links to additional information and how to to make a contribution. This is a way for you to make a big difference for these swans.

Flier announcement for Birds, Bugles, and Brunch, (BBB2_Flier_2016) open house at Camas National Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, September 17, 2016. Open house, birding tours, hay rides, brunch. Come enjoy the early autumn, watch fore migrating birds, and listen for bugling elk.

The Idaho Bird Inventory and Survey is a document produced by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game is a compendium of reports from field work on Idaho birds in 2014. The Inventory and Survey gives a good snapshot of the state of birds in Idaho and the level of commitment to conservation and management by a group of dedicated professionals.

The Bird Identification Brochure was designed as an easy guide with color pictures of some of the more common birds at Camas National Wildlife Reffuge--great for birding with kids.

The IF Birding Checklist 2018.pdf is a compilation of birds seen around Idaho Falls, with a key what time of year and how common they are here, a must have for visitors.

Here is a link to the Beginner's Guide to Birdwatching by HomeAdvisor provided to us by a young birding enthusiast. This is an excellent resource, not just for beginners either!

Click here to go to that website: Beginning Birding resources.

"web SRAS logo.jpg" is a small size Snake River Audubon logo that may be downloaded for public distribution. A higher resolution copy is available on request by emailing snakeriveraudinfo@gmail.com . Specify resolution desired.