WA - Cranes, Herons, Seabirds, Pelicans, Shorebirds, Swans, Ducks, Bluebirds, and Songbirds

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Washington State Nature Resources Guide

Wading and Shorebirds, Songbirds, and Waterfowl Links

Go to: Heron and Crane Links Bluebird, Hummingbird, and Songbird Links Ducks, Geese and Swan Links Pelican Links
.. Herons and Cranes
Great Blue Herons Herons Forever 206-933-0222 Washington Dept. of Ecology Puget Sound Shorelines Great Blue Heron Seattle Times Breazeale Interpretive Center's Great Blue Heron CAM Mark Yuasa, 4/4/06 Back to Top	Cranes Crane CAM, Live from Nebraska National Geographic (starts Feb 27, 2004) Bring Back the Whooping Crane (Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership) Whooping Crane information links International Crane Foundation P.O. Box 447, Baraboo, WI 53913-0447 Crane or 608-356-9462 Journey North Whooping Crane Migration Operation Migration P.O. Box 868, Buffalo, NY., 14207 Sandhill Cranes - Wings over the Platte Platte River Valley, Nebraska Wildlife Biology Research (Kent Clegg) 550 Bench-Lago Road Grace, Idaho 83241 Ultra Air Research or 208-425-3071 Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Whooping Crane Info
.. Bluebirds, Hummingbirds, and Songbirds
Bluebirds Bluebird Box Bluebird Information and Awareness (Nest boxes, feeding, stories, songs, photos) Bluebird Identification Center Birdwatchers Digest.com Bluebirds (Nesting schedule, building bluebird boxes, competitors) Cascadia Bluebird & Purple Martin Soc. c/o Dr. Michael Pietro 3015 Squalicum Pkwy # 250 Bellingham, WA 98225 Cornell Lab of Ornithology The Birdhouse Network Ellis Bird Farm, LTD Box 5090, Lacombe Alberta, Canada T4L 1W7 (northeast of Red Deer) 403-346-2211 Bluebird Info Bluebird Site Tours North American Bluebird Society (Range maps, fact sheets, nest boxes) Washington State Trails are not on this site. Prescott Bluebird Recovery Project (Oregon festival, project areas, birdboxes and monitoring, nesting habits, nesting and banding data, stories) Southern Interior Bluebird Trail Society Box 494, Oliver, BC Canada VOH 1TO (5000 boxes in the scenic Okanagan Valley, British Columbia - near Grand Forks, Osoyoos, Oliver, Princeton, Merrit, Logan Lake, Clinton, Williams Lake, Penticton, Naramata, Summerland, Kamloops and Quesnel) ..	Hummingbirds Lanny Chambers' Hummingbirds.net (Attracting, migration, photos, etc.) Humabout Hummingbird Photography (photos, poems, art, articles) Zittrich Hummingbird Photography Songbirds Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Songbirds of Eastern WA (including Selected Bird Songs) Back to Top ..
.. Ducks, Geese, and Swans
Ducks Ducks Unlimited One Waterfowl Way, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, 38120 Duck or 800-45-DUCKS or 901-758-3825 Western Regional Office 3074 Gold Canal Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 916-852-2000 Washington Office 1101 SE Tech Center Drive Suite 115 Vancouver, WA 98683 360-885-2011 Pacific Northwest Programs Back to Top	Geese U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Migratory Bird Management Snow Geese Swans The Trumpeter Swan Society Trumpeter Swan Soc., MBO 272 914 164th St. S.W., B-12 Mill Creek, WA 98012 Washington Swan Coalition Working Group 14112 1st Avenue W. Everett, WA 98208 Swan-WA or 425-787-0258
.. Pelicans
American White Pelicans USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (ID and maps) American White Pelican Fort Worth Zoo American White Pelican BC Species: Stum Lake American White Pelican	Brown Pelicans Pacific Biodiversity Institute: Endangered Species Info Network Brown Pelicans (including maps of sightings) University of Michigan Anuimal Diversity Web Brown Pelican US Army Corps of Engineers Brown Pelicans Find New Home USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (ID and maps) Brown Pelican ..
Pelicans in General Port Townsend Marine Science Center: Chuck Louch Pelicans	.. Kelly Cassidy: WA State Bird Species Maps Pelicans and Cormorants
Washington Nature Weekends by Sunny Walter and Janet O'Mara was published in August, 2001. The following chapters discuss where and when to view seasonal swan, heron, crane, shorebird, songbird, seabird, and pelican events:
Winter 5 Swans and Snow Geese Visit the Skagit Valley Spring 10 Great Blue Heron Mating in Clark County 12 Sandhill Crane Festival in Othello 17 Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival 18 International Migratory Bird Day	Summer 31 Offshore Birdwatching at Westport Fall 36 Wading and Shorebird Migration through the Columbia Basin 46 Late Fall Birding at Point Roberts

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