Missouri Young Birders Club

These resources will give you some ideas and resources for your regional meetings. Send in additional ideas.

Native Plants

• Grow Native
• Native Plant Finder
• National Audubon's Native Plant Database
• Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
• MO Dept. of Conservation Website
• Illinois Wildflowers
• Missouri Wild Flowers by Edgar Denison ISBN: 978-1-887247-59-7
• Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard ~ by Douglas W. Tallamy
• Homegrown National Park

Long-Distance Bird Migration

• Explore eBird animated abundance maps!
• Motus Tracking System Website
• Audubon Bird Migration Explorer (recommended by Hailey)
• Bird Cast – bird migration forecasts in real time
• Book: “A World on the Wing” by Scott Weidensaul – mentioned when we discussed how some birds can “turn off” part of their brain while flying during migration

Feathers

• The Feather Atlas – Feather Identification and Scans – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory (fws.gov)
• Book: “Bird Feathers: A Guide to North American Species” by Casey McFarland and Shannon David Scott
• All About Feathers

Gull Identification

• Above all - Time in the field
• Amar Ayyash blog
• Gulls of the Americas (Guidebook) – Howell and Dunn [Note: Out of print but watch used bookstores an
• Gulls Simplified – Dunne and Karlson (Guidebook)
• Gulls of the World- A Photographic Guide – Olsen
• North American Gulls page on Facebook
• Gull Research Organization

Eagles of the World

• Audubon’s Bald vs Golden ID tips
• Eagle Days on the MDC’s website

Wintering Birds in Missouri

• MRBO hosted Mark McKellar’s presentation on “Missouri’s Wintering Sparrows”
• MRBO’s Youtube that includes webinar recordings of Winter Birds Learning Series

Other Resources Shared in Meetings

• Book: “Atlas of Extinct Animals” by Radek Maly
• MRBO’s Photo Contest
• Annotated Checklist of Missouri Birds
• Birding for beginners
• Identifying Birds