Useful Resources
Some of our favorite resources for identifying birds, keeping records, following migration, and planning birding trips in Louisiana, Texas, and beyond.
Keep checklists, explore recent sightings, study hotspots, and see where birds are being reported.
Cornell Lab's free bird identification app, including Sound ID, Photo ID, range information, photos, and recordings.
Cornell Lab species accounts with identification tips, life history, range maps, photos, and sounds.
Migration forecasts, live radar-based migration information, and tools for seeing how many birds are moving through an area.
Look up nightly migration estimates by state or county during spring and fall migration.
Louisiana bird records, meetings, publications, and statewide ornithological information.
Local birding, conservation, sanctuaries, programs, events, and birding information for the Baton Rouge area.
Louisiana birding resources, events, conservation information, and links to the Louisiana Bird Observatory.
Louisiana birding information, including a link to the PDF edition of A Birder's Guide to Louisiana and Louisiana birding trails.
Texas Parks & Wildlife's interactive wildlife and birding trail maps.
Birding loops from the Louisiana border and Beaumont through High Island, Bolivar, Galveston, Brazoria, and San Bernard.
Coastal Bend birding from Matagorda through Rockport, Port Aransas, Corpus Christi, and Kingsville.
Lower Rio Grande Valley birding from Brownsville and South Padre Island through McAllen, Mission, and Rio Grande City.