Birds & Bats

This is the place to find your favorite animal or learn about a new one. Read about owls, bats, and more.

Resources in this category:

The Aviary
http://aviary.owls.com/

This site offers profiles of a variety of bird species, from the American Robin to the White Pelican. Photos plus information on appearance, eggs, and habitat are provided.

Bat Page Game Room
http://members.aol.com/bats4kids2/boxpage1.htm

Get bats in your belfrey with the Bat Page Game Room! This is the place to find fun games like Bat Word Jumble, Find the Bat Homes, Bat Concentration, and more. The site also includes jigsaw puzzles, connect-the-dots, an interactive coloring book, and ideas for learning more about bats in the classroom.

Bats
http://intergate.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/

Learn lots of facts about bats at this searchable site. You can find out about such things as the anatomy of bats, stories about bats, even sports teams with bat mascots.

Bats Bats Everywhere
http://members.aol.com/bats4kids

Everything you ever wanted to know about bats and more! You can play bat games, take a bat quiz, and learn all sorts of important facts about bats.

GORP- Great Outdoor Recreation Pages: Birding
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/birding.htm

Everything about birding, including a guide for different species of birds, where to go birding in the USA and around the world, travel opportunities for bird-watchers, and more.

International Crane Foundation
http://www.savingcranes.org/

This site promotes conservation of the crane species of the world by providing biological information in field guide form. Also includes pictures, special sections for kids and educators and news and events.

John Audubon: Birds of America
http://www.mcq.org/audubon/menu.html

Did you know John Audubon painted birds before photographs existed? See his lovely work here. Click on "Catalog" for a list of 435 bird species you can click to see. Or, enjoy the multimedia presentations on the front page.

Migratory Bird Center
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBi...

Learn about the migratory patterns of birds of the Americas. This is a great resource for kids and educators featuring games, coloring pages and fact sheets in English and Spanish.

The Nutty Birdwatcher
http://nuthatch.birdnature.com/

"The Nutty Birdwatcher offers information on birdwatching, Eastern US Birds, backyard bird feeding, bird migration, the do's & dont's of building bird nestboxes, guides to identifying birds, habitats of birds, galleries and profiles of birds and everything relating to birds."

Operation Ruby Throat: The Hummingbird Project
http://www.rubythroat.org/RTHUMain.html

"Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris) are the most widely distributed of the world's 338 species of hummingbirds, all of which occur ONLY in the Western Hemisphere." This site includes information about these tiny birds such as habitat, migration, size, interesting facts and much more.

Wildfinder: Mapping the World's species
http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildfinder/

Search more than 26,000 animal species throughout the world, either by place or by species name. You can search for birds, mammals, reptiles, or amphibians.

Zoom Birds
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/birds/

A big site all about birds, with features about bird-watching, official birds of US states, and bird fossils. The site also has a feature about "Bird Extremes," including which birds are fastest, shortest, and biggest, and which two birds in the whole world are poisonous.