A bird observatory is a centre for the study of bird migration 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 lightweig ...

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 ...

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 The Broome Bird Observatory is an educational, scientific and recreational facility located 24 km from Broome in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It began operating in 1988 under the auspices of the non-profit organisation Birds Austr ...

, 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, whic ...

, Western Australia *

Rotamah Island Bird Observatory Rotamah Island Bird Observatory was established in 1979 on Rotamah Island in the Gippsland Lakes National Park in eastern Victoria, Australia, by Birds Australia as Australia's second bird observatory, in order to provide a base for the study and ...

, 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 bo ...

in the Welsh island of Skokholm. 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-larges ...

* Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory, 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 i ...

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

*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 old ...

*Gibraltar Point Bird Observatory, Gibraltar Point *Hilbre Bird Observatory, Hilbre Islands *

Holme Bird Observatory Holme Bird Observatory is a nature reserve near Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, adjoining the Norfolk Wildlife Trust Holme Dunes reserve. It is 5 ha (13 acres) in extent, with Corsican pines and scrubby sand dunes as its main habitats. It ...

Holme next the Sea Holme-next-the-Sea is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the north Norfolk coast some 5 km north-east of the seaside resort of Hunstanton, 30 km north of the town of King's Lynn a ...

*Isle of May Bird Observatory & Field Station, Isle of May *Landguard Bird Observatory, Landguard *North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory, North Ronaldsay *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, Skokholm *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 c ...

* 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 ...

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 Costa may refer to: Biology * Rib (Latin: ''costa''), in vertebrate anatomy * Costa (botany), the central strand of a plant leaf or thallus * Costa (coral), a stony rib, part of the skeleton of a coral * Costa (entomology), the leading edge of ...

Czech Republic

* Červenohorské sedlo in Hrubý Jeseník

Estonia

* Kabli Bird Observatory * Vaibla Bird Observatory

France

* Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux

Germany

* Randecker Maar Observatory for Bird and Insect Migration,

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 world's first, now in

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

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 admini ...

)

Greece

* Antikythira Bird Observatory

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 f ...

Jordan

Aqaba Bird Observatory Aqaba (, also ; ar, العقبة, al-ʿAqaba, al-ʿAgaba, ) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative centre of the Aqaba Gove ...

Nepal

* Kosi Bird Observatory

Peru

* Manu Bird Observatory

Sweden

* Falsterbo Bird Observatory * Ottenby Bird Observatory

Switzerland

* Swiss Ornithological Institute

United States

Alaska Bird Observatory Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a U.S. state, state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity o ...

, Alaska * Biocore Prairie Bird Observatory, Wisconsin * Black Swamp Bird Observatory, Ohio *

Braddock Bay Bird Observatory Braddock may refer to: Places England, United Kingdom * Braddock, Cornwall ** Battle of Braddock Down, 1643 Canada * Braddock, Saskatchewan * Braddock Lake, Saskatchewan; a reservoir United States * Braddock, New Jersey * Braddock, North Dakota ...

, New York *

Cape May Bird Observatory The Cape May Bird Observatory was founded in 1975 in Cape May, New Jersey, United States and is sponsored by the New Jersey Audubon Society. The purpose of the Cape May Bird Observatory is to conduct research, encourage conservation, and organiz ...

, New Jersey *

Cape Romain Bird Observatory A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck. History Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. Th ...

, South Carolina *

Chipper Woods Bird Observatory Chipper may refer to: People * Chipper (nickname) * Eric Chipper (1915–1996), Canadian football player * John Chipper (1910–1980), British politician * Chipper Jones (born 1972), American baseball player Arts, entertainment, and media * Chi ...

, Indiana *