A bird observatory is a centre for the study of

bird migration Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds. Many species of bird migrate. Migration carries high costs in predation and mortality, including from hunting by ...

and

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

s. They are usually focused on local birds, but may also include interest in far-flung areas. Most bird observatories are small operations with a limited staff, many volunteers and a not-for-profit educational status. Many bird observatories conduct

bird ringing Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight ...

or bird banding (term in the United States).

Australia

* Barren Grounds Bird Observatory, New South Wales * Broome Bird Observatory, Western Australia *

Eyre Bird Observatory Eyre Bird Observatory is an educational, scientific and recreational facility in the Nuytsland Nature Reserve, Western Australia. Cocklebiddy is the nearest locality on the Eyre Highway, to the north. It is in the Hampton bioregion, which is ...

, Western Australia * Rotamah Island Bird Observatory, Victoria

Brazil

* Mantiqueira Bird Observator
(Observatório de Aves da Mantiqueira)

Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom's first bird observatory was established in 1933 by

Ronald Lockley Ronald Mathias Lockley (8 November 1903 – 12 April 2000) was a Welsh ornithologist and naturalist. He wrote over fifty books on natural history, including a major study of shearwaters, and many articles. He is perhaps best known for his book ...

in the Welsh island of

Skokholm Skokholm () or Skokholm Island is an island off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales, south of the neighbouring island of Skomer. The surrounding waters are a marine reserve and all are part of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Both islands ...

. This is a list of members of the Bird Observatories Council of Britain and Ireland. *Alderney Bird Observatory,

Alderney Alderney (; french: Aurigny ; Auregnais: ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The island's area is , making it the third-largest ...

Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory is a bird observatory on Bardsey Island, off the Welsh coast. It was founded in 1953 by a group of ornithologists from the West Midland Bird Club (who were represented on the observatory's management committ ...

, Bardsey Island *Calf of Man Bird Observatory,

Calf of Man Calf of Man ( gv, Yn Cholloo ) is a island, off the southwest coast of the Isle of Man. It is separated from the Isle of Man by a narrow stretch of water called the Calf Sound. Like the nearby rocky islets of Chicken Rock and Kitterland, it is ...

*Cape Clear Bird Observatory, Cape Clear *Copeland Bird Observatory, Copeland *Dungeness Bird Observatory,

Dungeness Dungeness () is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness spans Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, the hamlet ...

*Fair Isle Bird Observatory,

Fair Isle Fair Isle (; sco, Fair Isle; non, Friðarey; gd, Fara) is an island in Shetland, in northern Scotland. It lies about halfway between mainland Shetland and Orkney. It is known for its bird observatory and a traditional style of knitting. Th ...

*Filey Bird Observatory,

Filey Filey () is a seaside town and civil parish in the Borough of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, it is located between Scarborough and Bridlington on Filey Bay. Although it was a fishing ...

*Flamborough Bird Observatory,

Flamborough Head Flamborough Head () is a promontory, long on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea. It is a chalk headland, with sheer white cliffs. The cliff top has two standing lighthouse towers, the olde ...

*Gibraltar Point Bird Observatory,

Gibraltar Point Gibraltar Point may refer to: * Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire Gibraltar Point national nature reserve is an area of about on the coast of Lincolnshire, England. The reserve is owned by Lincolnshire County Council and East Lindsey District C ...

*Hilbre Bird Observatory,

Hilbre Islands The Hilbre Islands ( ) are an archipelago consisting of three islands at the mouth of the estuary of the River Dee, the border between England and Wales at this point. The islands are administratively part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirra ...

* Holme Bird Observatory, Holme next the Sea *Isle of May Bird Observatory & Field Station,

Isle of May The Isle of May is located in the north of the outer Firth of Forth, approximately off the coast of mainland Scotland. It is about long and wide. The island is owned and managed by NatureScot as a national nature reserve. There are now no ...

*Landguard Bird Observatory, Landguard *North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory,

North Ronaldsay North Ronaldsay (, also , sco, North Ronalshee) is the northernmost island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. With an area of , it is the fourteenth-largest.Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 334 It is mentioned in the '' Orkneyinga saga''; in modern ...

*Portland Bird Observatory and Field Centre,

Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...

*SBBOT Field Centre, Sandwich Bay *Skokholm Bird Observatory,

*Spurn Bird Observatory,

Spurn Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary. It was a spit with a semi-permanent co ...

* Walney Bird Observatory,

Walney Island Walney Island, also known as the Isle of Walney, is an island off the west coast of England, at the western end of Morecambe Bay in the Irish Sea. It is part of Barrow-in-Furness, separated from the mainland by Walney Channel, which is spanned b ...

Canada

Observatories belonging to the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network: * Holiday Beach Migration Observatory * Rocky Point Bird Observatory * Vaseux Lake Bird Observatory * Mackenzie, British Columbia, Mackenzie Nature Observatory (www.MackenzieNatureObservatory.ca) * Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory * Beaverhill Bird Observatory * Inglewood Bird Sanctuary * Last Mountain Bird Observatory * Delta Marsh Bird Observatory * Thunder Cape Bird Observatory * Whitefish Point Bird Observatory * Long Point Bird Observatory * Haldimand County, Ontario, Haldimand Bird Observatory * Toronto Bird Observatory * Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory * Innis Point Bird Observatory * Observatoire d'oiseaux de Tadoussac * Point Lepreau * Brier Island Bird Migration Research Station * Atlantic Bird Observatory * Gros Morne National Migration Monitoring Station * Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory * St. Andrews Banding Station * McGill Bird Observatory / Observatoire d'Oiseaux de McGill

Costa Rica

* Costa Rica Bird Observatories

Czech Republic

* Červenohorské sedlo in

Hrubý Jeseník Hrubý Jeseník (, , ) is a mountain range of Eastern Sudetes in northern Moravia and Czech Silesia. It is the second highest mountain range in the Czech Republic. Its best known natural sights include: *Praděd, its highest mountain *A powerf ...

Estonia

* Kabli Bird Observatory * Vaibla Bird Observatory

France

* Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux

Germany

Randecker Maar Observatory for Bird and Insect Migration The Randecker Maar Research Station (German: ''Forschungsstation Randecker Maar e.V.'') is a bird observatory which was founded in 1969 by the ornithologist . It studies birds, insects and other migratory creatures which tend to concentrate in t ...

Swabian Jura The Swabian Jura (german: Schwäbische Alb , more rarely ), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width. It is named after the region of ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

* Heligoland Bird Observatory *

Rossitten Bird Observatory The Rossitten Bird Observatory (''Vogelwarte Rossitten'' in German) was the world's first ornithological observatory. It was sited at Rossitten, East Prussia (now Rybachy, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), on the Curonian Spit on the south-eastern coa ...

(the world's first, now in

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast (russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, translit=Kaliningradskaya oblast') is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The largest city and administr ...

)

Greece

Antikythira Bird Observatory The Antikythera Bird Observatory, ABO (Greek ''Ορνιθολογικός Σταθμός Αντικυθήρων, ΟΣΑ'') in Antikythira is the only bird observatory in Greece, developing a constant effort ringing activity during bird migration ...

Hungary

* Ócsa Bird Ringing Station

Israel

Jerusalem Bird Observatory The Jerusalem Bird Observatory is an urban bird observatory in Israel, sited on a 5000 m2 plot in central Jerusalem between the Knesset and the Supreme Court. History The Jerusalem Bird Observatory was established in 1994 by the Society for t ...

Jordan

* Aqaba Bird Observatory

Nepal

Kosi Bird Observatory Kosi Bird Observatory (KBO) and field education center (26°46’57"N/087°08’21"E) is the first and the sole bird observatory in Nepal established by Himalayan Nature (HN : a not-for-profit research and conservation organization). KBO lies in Sun ...

Peru

* Manu Bird Observatory

Sweden

* Falsterbo Bird Observatory * Ottenby Bird Observatory

Switzerland

Swiss Ornithological Institute The Swiss Ornithological Institute () is a non-profit foundation headquartered in Sempach in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland dedicated to the study and conservation of birds. The Swiss Ornithological Institute w ...

United States

* Alaska Bird Observatory, Alaska * Biocore Prairie Bird Observatory, Wisconsin *

Black Swamp Bird Observatory Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have ...

, Ohio * Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, New York * Cape May Bird Observatory, New Jersey * Cape Romain Bird Observatory, South Carolina * Chipper Woods Bird Observatory, Indiana * Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory, Virginia * Derby Hill Bird Observatory, New York * Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, California * Great Basin Bird Observatory, Nevada * Gulf Coast Bird Observatory, Texas *

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Hawk Mountain Sanctuary is a wild bird sanctuary in Albany Township and East Brunswick Township, located along the Appalachian flyway in eastern Pennsylvania. The sanctuary is a prime location for the viewing of kettling and migrating raptors ...

, Pennsylvania * Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, Minnesota * Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory, Texas * Humboldt Bay Bird Observatory, California * Intermountain Bird Observatory(formerly Idaho Bird Observatory), Idaho * Klamath Bird Observatory, Oregon * Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Massachusetts * Missouri River Bird Observatory, Missouri *

Norman Bird Sanctuary Norman Bird Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary, nature preserve, environmental education center, and museum at 583 Third Beach Road in Middletown, Rhode Island overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. In 1949, the Norman Bird Sanctuary was founded through a ...

, Rhode Island * Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Rhode Island *

Point Reyes Bird Observatory Point Blue Conservation Science, founded as and formerly named the Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO), is a California-based wildlife conservation and research non-profit organization. Overview Point Blue was founded in 1965 to study bird migra ...

, California * Powdermill Avian Research Center, Pennsylvania * Rio Grande Valley Bird Observatory, Texas * Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, Colorado * Rouge River Bird Observatory, Michigan * San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory, California * Sand Bluff Bird Observatory, Illinois * Sandy Hook Bird Observatory, New Jersey * Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory, Arizona *

The Institute for Bird Populations The Institute for Bird Populations (IBP), based in Petaluma, California is a non-profit organization dedicated to studying and monitoring bird populations, and providing land managers and policy makers with information needed to better manage t ...

, California *

Whitefish Point Bird Observatory The Whitefish Point Bird Observatory (WPBO) is located in Chippewa County, Michigan, USA, adjacent to the Whitefish Point Unit of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge. It operates as a non-profit, affiliate education and research facility of the ...

, Michigan

References

External links

Canadian Migration Monitoring Network

The Bird Observatories Council of Britain and Ireland
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