Master Naturalist Resources
Resources for Birding by Ear
Websites
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- Audubon Birding by Ear – https://www.audubon.org/birding-by-ear
- Cornell Macaulay Library – https://www.macaulaylibrary.org
- Dendroica – https://www.natureinstruct.org/dendroica
- Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds – https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/peterson-field-guide-to-bird-sounds
- Xeno-Canto – https://xeno-canto.org
Books
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- Bonham & Carter’s Birds of West-central Montana
- Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Western North America by Nathan Pieplow
- What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
CDs
- Western Montana Bird Songs (Bruce Tannehill / Flathead Audubon)
- Birds Songs of Puget Sound and Washington State (Martyn Stewart)
- Birds of the Pacific States (Thomas G. Sander)
- National Geographic Guide to Bird Sounds
- Peterson Field Guides – Western Bird Songs
- Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs
Free (or almost free) apps for your phone
To help identify the bird you’re hearing/seeing:
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- Merlin*
- iNaturalist*
For more information about the species:
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- Audubon
- iBird Yard+ ($2.99)
Where to find birds:
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- eBird*
* can be used to submit observations
Books that have been recommended by Master Naturalists
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- A Most Remarkable Creature: The hidden life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg
- Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathon Slaght
- Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
- Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson
- The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson
- Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved by Kenneth Catania
- Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
- An Immense World by Ed Yong
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Beak of the Finch by Johathan Weiner
- The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman
- The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
- A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
- The Wolverine Way by Doug Chadwick
- A Beast the Color of Winter by Doug Chadwick
- Rocky Mountain Natural History by Daniel Mathews
- How to Read Nature by Tristan Gooley
- What it’s Like to be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
- A Natural History of the Future by Rob Dunn
- Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
Ecology
Fire Ecology – the Role of Fire on the Landscape
Biogeography (Greg Peters’ talk) – need to upload file