Field Guides
Field guides are an excellent entry into learning about birds, their classifications, their habitats, their behaviors, and how to identify them. Field guides can be purchased in paper form and increasingly are also available as an app for use on your mobile phone or tablet. Here are some favorites:
- The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of North America by David Allen Sibley
- The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America by David Allen Sibley
- Birds of North America by Ken Kaufman
- Kaufman Field Guide to Advanced Birding by Ken Kaufman
- National Geographic’s Field Guide to Birds of North America
- Stokes Field Guide to Birds of North America
- Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
- National Audubon Society Field Guide to North America
eBird
eBird is the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizen science project, with more than 100 million bird sightings contributed each year by eBirders around the world. A collaborative enterprise with hundreds of partner organizations, thousands of regional experts, and hundreds of thousands of users, eBird is managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
eBird data document bird distribution, abundance, habitat use, and trends through checklist data collected within a simple, scientific framework. Birders enter when, where, and how they went birding, and then fill out a checklist of all the birds seen and heard during the outing. eBird’s free mobile app allows offline data collection anywhere in the world, and the website provides many ways to explore and summarize your data and other observations from the global eBird community. Learn how to get started.
eBird can be used on your mobile phone, however a much broader range of info, tools and functions is available via the website
Birding Stores in the Salt Lake area
Backyard Birds
2698 Highland Dr, SLC, UT 84106
801-467-7222
Wild Birds Unlimited
1967 E Murray-Holladay Rd, SLC, UT 84117
801-878-4449
Wild About Birds
1986 N Hill Field Rd #7B, Layton, UT 84041
801-779-2473