Birding Ethics

• Code of Birding Ethics – American Birding Association
• Why Photographers Should Reconsider Using Playback in the Field – National Audubon Society
• Principles of Ethical Field Practices – North American Nature Photography Association 

Bird Rehabilitator in New York City

• Wild Bird Fund Inc. of New York City — Their mission is to rehabilitate distressed wildlife and return them to their natural habitats. 

Field Trips at Other Organizations

• American Littoral Society
• Birdingpal — to find a local birder to go birdwatching with 
• Brooklyn Bird Club trips — for the home page Brooklyn Bird Club
• The Citybirder blog — Brooklyn bird trips and much more by Rob Jett
• NYC Audubon Events & Adventures — for the home page New York City Audubon

Forecasts: Weather, Radar, Birds and Other

• BirdCast forecasts, regional migration analyses, maps and charts by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Central Park weather — type in “Central Park, NY” or zip code 10024 for NOAA surface weather

General Resources

• 10,000 Birds – birding, nature, conservation, information, travel, reviews, galleries, and blog
• Birdingdude blog — shorebirds, etc. by Andrew Baksh
• Fatbirder — linking birders worldwide by Richard Crombet-Beolens
• Great Gull Island Project — monitoring study of Common and Roseate Terns nesting on Great Gull Island
• The Kingbird Archive — The NYS Ornithological Association’d online archive of its quarterly journal, The Kingbird
• Nemesis Bird — science, apps, alerts and more (you may subscribe for email alerts) 
• Pale Male — images of Pale Male, the Red-tailed Hawk of Central Park, and other birds in Central Park by Lincoln Karim
• Project Safe Flight – If you find a dead or injured bird, you can make an important contribution by reporting the bird to NYC Audubon’s database
• Ridgewood Reservoir Education and Preservation Project blog
• Urban Hawks — wildlife in Central Park and New York City — a blog about raptors by D. Bruce Yolton 
• Wing and Tail Collection — at the Slater Museum of Natural History

Hotspots

NYC Audubon has an excellent guide to area hotspots.  In addition to their guide, local birders have written for The Linnaean Society of New York a few guides to lesser known hotspots in Manhattan.

• The Mysteries of Micro-Parks by Jacob Drucker
• Bryant Park by Ben Cacace
• Clinton Community Gardens by Debbie Mullins
• Governors Island by Annie Barry
• Morningside Gardens by Joyce Hyon
• Randall’s Island by Ben Cacace
• Stuyvesant Cove and Stuyvesant Town by Anne Lazarus
• Swindler Cove Park & Sherman Creek by Ben Cacace
• Tompkins Square Park by Dennis Edge
• Washington Square Village and Silver Towers Complex by Angus Wilson

Organizations

• American Birding Association (ABA)
• American Museum of Natural History
• Audubon New York (State Chapter)
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• The Nature Conservancy
• NYS Ornithological Association

Rare Bird Alerts

• 212-979-3070 — New York City Area Rare Bird Alerts by Telephone
• nysbirds-L — to access the email listserv for New York State
• eBird.org alerts — Register and choose your location(s) to receive email alerts
• eBirds NYC — a Group.io message board for reporting wild bird sightings around NYC
• citybirder — Rob Jett’s blog reports the New York RBA
  – with other useful birding information, especially for Brooklyn 
• Surfbirds’ NYSBirds-L — also reports The New York State email listserv
• Birdingonthe.Net — posts rare bird alerts by location, for local sightings select EAST:NYC Area RBA
• American Birding Association (ABA) — posts rare bird alerts by location
• Surfbirds — birding mail archives of other groups listings