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Birding - Venezuela

General

OVUM – Venezuelan discussion bird group (en español). To join, email Sandra Giner: sginer@strix.ciens.ucv.ve
Fat Birder
http://www.fatbirder.com/links_geo/america_south/venezuela.html
Birding Pal
http://www.birdingpal.org/venezuela.htm
Birding Hotspots Around the World
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/savenezuela.htm
WorldTwitch
http://worldtwitch.com/new_world.htm



Birding trip reports – Venezuela and Neotropics

BIRDTRIP@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Birding Trip Reports
http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=birdtrip&T=0
Birding the Americas
http://maybank.tripod.com/SouthAmerica/SouthAmerica-Index.htm
Birdwatching Trip Reports from BirdTours http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/venezuela/index.htm
Bird Chat
http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdchat.html or http://birdingonthe.net/chat.html
Surfbirds – South America trip reports http://www.surfbirds.com/Trip%20Reports/trindexsamerica.html#Anchor-GLOBAL-50925
WorldTwitch
http://worldtwitch.com/links.htm#neotropical
John van der Woude's trip reports
http://johnbirding.wolweb.nl/


Bird lists –Venezuela

Avibase – Venezuela checklist (follows Clements 5th edition, updated 2003)
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?region=ve&pg=checklist&list=clements
Also available as Sibley & Monroe 1996, Howard & Moore 3rd edition, Commission internationale pour les noms français d'oiseaux, 1993, American Ornithologist Union 7th edition (44th suppl.)
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?pg=checklist&region=ve&list=cinfo&lang=EN


Other birding sites

Bird Links to the World (excellent links page)
http://www.bsc-eoc.org/links/links.jsp?page=l_sam_ve
WorldTwitch (again, lots of helpful links)
http://worldtwitch.com/links.htm#neotropical
Birdingonthe.Net
http://birdingonthe.net/mid_sa.html
Electronic Resources on Ornithology
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/bird.html
Planeta
 http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/resources/birds.html
Venezuela Eco Portal
http://ecoportal8.tripod.com/birdwatch.htm
Wild Macaws – Venezuela
http://freespace.virgin.net/susan.armitage/VENPAR1.HTM


Birding Tours

For custom and group bird tours of Venezuela, please contact Chris Sharpe


Birding optics

Better View Desired
http://betterviewdesired.com/

Birding audio

Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, Cornell University (largest archive of Neotropical bird vocalisations, including the extremely important collection of Paul Schwartz, made in Venezuela )
http://birds.cornell.edu/lns/
The British Library Sound Archive (includes Neotropical bird vocalisations)
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wild.html
The Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
http://blb.biosci.ohio-state.edu/
Florida Museum of Natural History Bioacoustic Archives
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/ornithology/ornithology.htm#Top
Biblioteca de sonidos de aves mexicanas
http://www.ecologia.edu.mx/sonidos/
The Wildlife Sound Recording Society (UK)
http://www.5cbm.fsnet.co.uk/wsrs_intro.htm
Nature Recordists Discussion Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/
The MiniDisc Community Portal
http://www.minidisc.org/


Ornithology - Neotropics

A classification of the bird species of South America (South American Checklist Committee, American Ornithologists' Union) http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.html
An extensive bibliography is provided at http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBiblio.html
Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)
http://egizoosrv.zoo.ox.ac.uk/owl/
Recent Ornithological Literature Online (ROLO)
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/ROL/ROLissues.html
Recent Postings from the Neotropical Ornithology Birding List (NEOORN-L)
http://server1.birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NEOO.html
InfoNatura (interesting but lots of errors)
http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/


Conservation - Venezuela


Venezuelan Audubon Society – SCAV (Venezuelan NGO specifically devoted to bird conservation) N.B. Web site has been down since 2003. http://www.audubondevenezuela.org/
Provita (Venezuelan NGO working on biodiversity conservation with emphasis on threatened species; produces the Venezuelan Red Data Book) http://www.provitaonline.org/
BioParques (Venezuelan NGO working on conservation of national parks) http://www.bioparques.org/?
Fundación Tierra Viva (NGO working on environmental education)
http://www.tierraviva.org
Fudena (Venezuela's WWF affiliate)
http://www.fudena.org.ve/
Fundación Polar (formed by Venezuela's most popular beer producer, the foundation directs significant funding to conservation)
http://www.fpolar.org.ve/index.html
American Bird Conservancy – Venezuela page
http://www.abcbirds.org/counterparts/venezuela_profile.htm
ABC's AlianzaAves – Venezuela page (en español)
http://www.alianzaves.net/venezuela_spprofile.htm
MARN (Venezuelan Ministry for the Environment)
http://www.marnr.gov.ve/
INPARQUES (Venezuelan National Parks Institute)
http://www.inparques.gov.ve/
Sistema de Información sobre Biodiversidad en Venezuela (GoV biodiversity web site)
http://www.sibv.org.ve/
Defensoría Ambiental (to report breaches of environmental law)
http://www.defensoria.gov.ve email: denuncias@defensoria.gov.ve
Red de medio ambiente de Cantv.net
http://www.cantv.net/medioambiente

Canaima National Park and World Heritage Site

The Lost World (the most complete internet site on the tepuis)
http://www.thelostworld.org/
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre Protected Areas Database
http://www.wcmc.org.uk/protected_areas/data/wh/canaima.html
UNESCO – World Heritage Sites
http://whc.unesco.org/sites/701.htm
Planeta – Venezuela's Canaima National Park and World Heritage Site
(from Sharpe, C.J. and I. Rodríguez. 1997. Discovering the Lost World: Canaima National Park and World Heritage Site ,Venezuela . The George Wright Forum 14 (3): 15-23) http://www.planeta.com/planeta/97/0897canaima.html
Up-date:- http://www.planeta.com/planeta/98/0898canaima.html
World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/wri/ffi/atg-eng/guayana.htm
The Nature Conservancy
http://nature.org/wherewework/fieldguide/projectprofiles/cnp.html
Guiana Shield Media Project
http://www.gsmp.org/ENGLISH/INDEX-UK.HTM
The Last Refuge – film-making in the tepuis
http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/data/articles/tepuis/tepuis_Main.html


Research - Venezuela

Estación Ornitológica La Mucuy
http://www.geocities.com/lamucuy2000/espanol.html
NEOMAPS – Neotropical Biodiversity Mapping Project
(commencing with Venezuelan birds)

I can find no other sites dedicated to research on Venezuelan birds – please contact me if you would like your ornithological or conservation research listed here.


Responsible tourism

Planeta.com
http://www.planeta.com
Venezuela at
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/south/venezuela/venezuela1.html and  http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/south/venezuela/venoutdoors.html
The International Ecotourism Society
http://www.ecotourism.org/
Tourism Concern
http://www.tourismconcern.org
INATUR (Venezuela 's Tourism Institute)
http://www.inatur.gov.ve/
Email: inatur@cantv.net or inatur@inatur.gov.ve


International conservation

BirdLife International
http://www.birdlife.net/
Threatened Birds of the World at http://www.birdlife.net/datazone/search/species_search.html
Neotropical Bird Club
http://www.neotropicalbirdclub.org/
American Bird Conservancy
http://www.abcbirds.org/
National Audubon Society
http://www.audubon.org/
NAS Latin America and Caribbean Program
http://www.audubon.org/local/latin/
NAS – Latin America Bulletin (sadly 1998-2000 only)
http://www.audubon.org/local/latin/bulletin.html
Partners in Flight (migratory birds)
http://www.partnersinflight.org/
Cracid Specialist Group
http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/cracid/
Idea Wild (one of the best small-scale conservation funders with a good track record of support for over 30 Venezuelan projects)
http://www.ideawild.org/
World Resources Institute
http://www.wri.org/
Wildlife Trust
http://www.wpti.org/
Wildlife Conservation Society
http://wcs.org/
Conservation International
http://www.conservation.org/
The Nature Conservancy
http://www.nature.org/
IUCN Red List (information on globally threatened species)
http://www.redlist.org/
EcoPortal – El Directorio Ecológico y Natural
http://www.ecoportal.net/



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