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Ornithology (from either a Greek ornitha = chicken and logotype = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with a scientific study of birds. It includes observations in the structure & classification of birds, & on their habits, song & flight.
Regional associations and societies
Europe
United Kingdom
West Midland Bird Club
National associations and societies
Asia
India
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS): Located at Mumbai (formerly Bombay), these are a big & oldest non-government Organization around natural history in the Indian subcontinent. Visit http://www.bnhs.org
[http://www.westernghatsforum.org/sacon.htm Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History] (SACON) Placed close Coimbatore.
Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. a food & drug administration department intended to document and survey the animal of India.
Japan
The Ornithological Society of Japan (OSJ) - [http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/osj/english/home_e.html]
Wild Bird Society of Japan (WBSJ) - [http://www.wbsj.org/]
Japanese Society for Preservation of Birds (JSPB) - [http://www.jspb.org/english/e_index.htm]
Yamashina Institute for Ornithology - [http://www.yamashina.or.jp/english/toppage.html]
Europe
Estonia
Estonian Ornithological Society - [http://www.eoy.ee/]
Ireland
BirdWatch Ireland
Lithuania
Lithuanian Ornithological Society - [http://www.birdlife.lt]
Slovenia
Society for Observation & Survey of Birds of Slovenia (DruÅ¡tvo za opazovanje around prouÄ?evanje ptic Slovenije) (DOPPS)
United Kingdom
British Ornithologists' Club
British Ornithologists' Union
British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
A British Birds Rarities Committee
A Rare Birds Breeding Panel (RBBP)
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT)
North America
Canada
Bird Studies Canada
USA
American Birding Association
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU)
Association of Field Ornithologists
Cooper Ornithological Society
National Audubon Society
Wilson Ornithological Society
Oceania
Australia
Birds Australia
New Zealand
Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
Publications and magazines
Acrocephalus, DOPPS (Slovenia)
Ardeola, Sociedad Española first state OrnitologÃa (Spain) - [http://www.ardeola.org/]
Audubon Magazine (USA) - [http://magazine.audubon.org/]
The Auk, American Ornithologists' Union (America) - Post-1999 volumes [http://www.aou.org/auk/index.php3]; complete volumes One-116 (1884-1999) when loose DjVu and PDF files at SORA [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/index.php]
BirdingASIA (erst OBC Bulletin), Oriental Bird Club - [http://orientalbirdclub.org/publications/birdingasia/index.html], OBC Bulletin [http://orientalbirdclub.org/publications/bulletin/index.html]
Bird Survey (UK) - [http://www.bto.org/membership/birdstudy.htm]
British Birds (UK)
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club (UK) - [http://www.boc-online.org/bulletin.htm]
A Condor, Cooper Ornithological Society (United states) - Post-2000 volumes [http://www.cooper.org/]; complete volumes One-102 (1899-2000) when loose DjVu and PDF files at SORA [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/index.php]
'Elepaio, Hawaii Audubon Society (United states) - Absolutely free! good-text access to survive Two volumes [http://www.hawaiiaudubon.com/newsletter.html]
A Emu, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (Australia) - [http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/96.htm]
Forktail, Oriental Bird Club - [http://orientalbirdclub.org/publications/forktail/index.html]
Hirundo (Estonia) - [http://www.loodus.ee/hirundo/]
Ibis, British Ornithologists Union (UK) - [http://www.bou.org.uk/pubibis.html]
Irish Birds (Ireland)
A Journal of Field Ornithology, Association of Field Ornithologists (America) - Complete volumes 51-70 (1980-1999) & precedessor publication Bird-Banding when loose DjVu and PDF files at SORA [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/JFO/index.php]
Japanese Journal of Ornithology (Japan) - [http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/osj/english/activities/journal/contents%26abstracts.e.html]
Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology (Japan) - [http://www.yamashina.or.jp/kankobutu/yamashina_mokuji_e.html]
Kukila (Bulletin of the Indonesian Ornithological Society) - [http://www.pili.or.id/kukila/index.htm]
Marine Ornithology - Yours free! good-text access to volumes Sixteen & late (1988-present) [http://www.marineornithology.org/]
Ostrich (South Africa)
Ornithos (France) - [http://www.lpo.fr/ornithos/]
Revista OrnitologÃa Colombiana, ACO (Colombia) - Absolutely free! good-text access [http://www.ornitologiacolombiana.org/]
Te Manu, Société d'Ornithologie diamond state Polynésie - Yours free! back issues [http://www.manu.pf/Temanu.html]
A Wilson Bulletin, Wilson Ornithological Society (United states) - Complete volumes One-111 (1889-1999) when loose DjVu and PDF files at SORA [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/index.php]
People
Understand List of famous ornithologists
See Also
Bird observatory
Bird ringing
Bird migration
Birdwatching
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Drift migration
Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology
Naturalist
Timeline of ornithology
Important publications in ornithology
Other Meanings
"Ornithology" is besides the title of a song by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, who was referred to as "Bird".
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